On 2023-01-06 21:08, bork via Users wrote:
Normally, & esp. for "non-expert" coders (I am not), not a good idea to edit root owned files. WHEN possible, copy the file into the user home directory (~/). But not executable or library files, etc. In your user home dir, you don't (& should NOT) be using "root-anything" - in code, as a gen. rule.
Bork:
It's all good. I run as root all the time. I know I'm not supposta, but I do. In 10 years of running Linux I've had one problem, namely a .jpg downloaded without permission. I'm always tinkering with root-owned files so I just got sick of sudoing back and forth and I just stay as root.