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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

The GUI apps do (depends on your DE). Terminal apps like nano are designed to work without fancy desktop stuff, like Polkit. Any sort of graphical text editor should prompt you for your password.

systemctl still asks for a password, though. Because it's systemd, and it's part of everything.

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