![]() ![]() Starting from Ubuntu 19.10, using sudo with GUI applications will assume root's home directory and not the current user's home directory. The old issue was that sudo used to write and modify the applications configuration files in the current user's home directory changing their permissions and ownership from the current user to root which will render them inaccessible to the current user and thus mess up the current user's home directory's contents to the point that GUI applications might not run anymore or run with errors. Starting from Ubuntu 19.10 and later, you can run GUI applications with sudo. Some people will still warn you not to do so on Ubuntu without even knowing why! ![]() What you've been told is a remnant of an old issue (tale) that is not an issue anymore. I've been told that running GUI application with sudo is not a good
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