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From this and your other thread I’m getting the idea that you should switch desktop environments. Gnome doesn’t provide that functionality in the context menu by default and tends to obfuscate program names in order to be more straightforward.
Install kde. See how it treats you. It’s a lot more windowsy than gnome.
Usually when gnome users run into something they can’t do with the gui they’ll either go without it or use the command line to do it. That’s the way macos users are too.
If you don’t wanna use the command line you gotta have a de that doesn’t treat it as an acceptable fallback.
I’m just gonna respond to your other thread here as well. The problem you ought to be trying to solve isn’t running a gui program sudo (which is a bad idea for all the reasons everyone else in that thread listed), but why you’re not being prompted for credentials when you try to do something that needs them.
One of the examples you gave is a network share file access and it could be (I’m guessing because decades ago I did this too) that you have admin credentials on your local machine that match the ones your network share is looking for. If that’s the case, it’s bad, fix it.
Is it as easily customizable now? The thing I hate about Windows and love about GNOME is that I can configure the UI to look like almost anything with a few clicks and there is a great community creating great extensions. I haven't tried KDE in many years but I found it more limiting than even Windows last time I tried it.
I don’t know what you want to customize, but it seemed really customizable to me.
So you understand who you’re talking to: I use lxqt and the only customized thing about it is taskbar on the left side of the screen.