On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 21:34:15 (+0200), Jan Claeys wrote: > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 16:22 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > How many graphical programs does Debian actually have that are > > intended to be run as root on a desktop? It's certainly not "half > > the os's utilities". I'd be surprised if there are as many as ten. > > Another well-known one is GParted, which doesn't really have an > alternative for people to use instead...
Does parted not do the same things? I must admit that in 24 years of linux, I've never run a GUI application as root. And I would have thought there's a case for using a TUI rather than a GUI if the need was pressing. Cheers, David.
