Gnome has nautilus-gksu available in the repositories so the user can open files as administrator easily. I have been using Ubuntu for several years and installed it on several users. All of these users asked why they could not edit certain files easily when GUI is not available. Like change default boot order on dual boot system. I did not know nautilus-gksu existed until reading about it on Brainstorm. This is wrong. I have always installed Nautilus scripts to accomplish this task and that solution conveys a typical Linux geek experience for Windows converts. While I tried to explain the "power" of Nautilus scripts, it showed that Ubuntu was not ready for home use. If I never new about it, how many millions of users stop using Ubuntu just because they could not easily edit a file? Nautilus-gksu should be installed by default. Maybe remind on first use that they should not be editing files as root/administrator unless they know what they are doing.

This should replace idea #2612.