You are going to fuck this up. Don't come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.
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I never ever had to run my file manager as root.
It's nice to have a GUI for those things sometimes rather than a command line for everything. If you're doing things right, your daily login shouldn't have access to modify system settings or read sensitive logs. But troubleshooting requires that often and ls, vim, cat, tail, etc., can become cumbersome compared to a GUI file manager and proper GUI text editor like Kate or Gedit.
Same here, but I can understand why someone might want to. For many people, even those that are comfortable on the command line, a GUI is a more comfortable experience. And, I have (rarely) needed to do some filesystem management as not my primary user account.
I installed something that I got very disappointed, and wanted to get rid of it
the script itself tried to rm something in a directory but failed, sudo dolphin didn't work, so I found out how to delete stuff from... I think /bin or /usr/local/bin ?
That needed me to run as admin/root so I did it. I deleted 1 file, the leftover artifact of the thing I didn't want installed. I then stopped using dolphin as admin so that I wouldn't break everything forever.
Let me stop you right there altogether!
I'm getting used to it; I customised it to my liking and it even has a terminal built in. what do you recommend instead?
also, what do you recommend that works like VSCode for writing shit into that I never save and leave open forever, and has a search functionality on all open files that can work on any programming language I want (through compiler/interpreter and colour scheme plugins)?
Vscodium.
Or one of the many variants of ol' Sublimetext and Atom (Sublime is paid for, Atom has been abandoned, but there are successors)
I'll check out some atom successors, thanks! Any specific ones you like?
You can use vscode on linux
I know I can, but I want to learn about alternatives and grow.
I'm trying to learn vim so I have neovim with neovim. With this you can do a lot more stuff. Have a lot more functionality, and it's super easy to set up
If your needs are not that complex, you could maybe stick with kde and use kate.
Uhh does Codium not work for you? It's not Vim but it's something
I haven't tried, but I want to learn about alternatives and grow. I don't want vscode with the scummy bits removed, I want to see something that's better and try something new that's similar to something that has solved the problems I stated.
Let me stop you right there!