> Like when I try to do something that needs to be started with sudo, instead of warning me and just asking me if I want to run the command as root, I have to g

> Like when I try to do something that needs to be started with sudo, instead of warning me and just asking me if I want to run the command as root, I have to go back and input it again with sudo. This sounds like a misconfiguration or lack of support for policykit to me. > Then some programs like VLC just straight-up refuse to run as root. That IMHO should be the standard behaviour of most non-basic/GUI programs to me, running as root is overall a terrible idea.