Just learned that #Wayland also prevents GUI applications from running as root. At this point, it doesn't even surprise me anymore. It feels like Wayland is made by people who want to make everything as cumbersome and complicated as possible. https://t.co/Kaxr12AyQU

— probono (@probonopd) March 6, 2021

Most of computing has moved this way in the last decade. It’s all fake security to take away user capabilites. That’s all it is — doesn’t actually increase security to any great degree, but grants control of your computer to some other entity (which is the whole point).

Don’t buy the Firefox (et al.) BS that it’s about making the user’s experience more secure and better. Trust me, I’ve been computerin’ a long time and it has absolutely nothing to do with that at all. If it did, there are far better ways to achieve that goal.