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> Sudo nominally being for special/power use cases, but being required for many things

Many things are special/power use cases. Freedom is power, and with power comes responsibility.

> Doesn't feel like it's aimed at single-user PCs

It isn't. But what you think of as problems, I consider opportunities. Switching between multiple user accounts is useful for identity management.

> I'm not trying to administer anything; I just want to write and launch software.

If you test and package and distribute your software, you necessarily administrate the environments in which the tests and builds occur.



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