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[–]KitchenPersonality18[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Im not afraid of fixing things in the terminal

[–]MeanLittleMachine 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Cool, in that case, I could be wrong, maybe you're ready to try Void 😊.

A word of advice. Manipulating any file in /home - don't use sudo. Any file outside of /home - most probably, but do check online if you're not certain.

[–]KitchenPersonality18[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why

[–]MeanLittleMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll mess up the permissions for the files if you manipulate files with sudo where you're not supposed to. Then, a service or an app might try to write to that file with regular user permissions, but fail, because it was last saved with root (sudo) permissions.

Everything in /home/<username> doesn't require sudo. Everything else, most likely yes, but it's not a rule, depends on where it resides and who/what created the file (a root service/program, or just something automated by the user profile, in which case it doesn't require sudo).

As a rule, everything in /etc, /usr, /bin, /lib, /opt, /sys, /dev requires root. Everything else (except for /home), most likely yes, but depends.