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On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> There are also some programs that outright refuse to run under a root
> account.

I ran into that yesterday trying to upload the Fedora kernel test results. 
It tried to spin up Firefox for me to log in but threw a message of 'no 
can do. can't run Firefox as root.'  I'm not sure why. FF is a snap on 
Ubuntu but it is not a flatpak on Fedora.

The instructions for setting up the test with the immutable versions of 
Fedora convinced me I'm not going that route any time soon.