> It never asks for elevation. It doesn’t need root, UAC, or sudo, because nothing it wants is root-owned. SSH keys, AWS credentials, browser profiles, wallet data, .env files - all of it is user-owned by design, because you need to read it routinely.

Tangentially, what have people found that works well in term of hardening [0] desktop linux? For example, at least keeping "banking" separate from code-development?

I figure the only good way to keep separate user accounts and whenever I have to do something as root, I switch to the most-secure and least-used of the accounts.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1200/