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Not regularly, but the most common use I've encountered is text files used in various configurations.
Not necessarily a satisfactory solution for you, but the usual way to handle that is just using a text editor in the shell with sudo, like nano or vim. It's pretty fast and easy once you get used to it. I don't know if there are any good graphical ways of doing it.
I know. That's what I've been doing for years. I could also just
sudo gedit file directory filenamebut it's SO much easier to right-click "open as admin" which is why I asked.I would suggest right-click in the folder in your file explorer -> open in terminal ->
sudo nanoautocomplete file name (tab tab). At least to me that doesn't seem that much more involved and is safer. Otherwise, as others have noted, there are apparently ways of doing what you want, but it is discouraged for good reasons.That is the 1% I mentioned, and the easiest way is installing this https://github.com/nautilus-extensions/nautilus-admin which I think is in the apt repos, so probably
sudo apt install nautilus-adminworks.But I STRONGLY encourage you NOT to install this, you've already made a mess of permissions on your computer that by your own account caused you many headaches by running graphical programs with sudo without any need.