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  • The other popular operating system has measures that allow it to mix elevated apps and non-elevated ones (namely, integrity levels) as part of UAC; X11 has nothing like that. It's amazing we haven't had daily incidents of bad apps injecting "sudo..." keystrokes into Xterm, and so on. Commented Dec 26, 2023 at 18:38