Your comment seems to suggest the alternative of not installing `sudo` is to run your desktop as root. Which clearly isn't the case at all. There are plenty of

Your comment seems to suggest the alternative of not installing `sudo` is to run your desktop as root. Which clearly isn't the case at all. There are plenty of "sudo" alternatives: `su -c`, `doas`, `login`, etc Also since we're talking about running as root: ironically I've found a lot of people seem to put the following line in their sudoers file: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL which is definitely better than logging in as root....but not by a lot.