I'm assuming you're using the nautilus file manager. I found this post in adding right click actions to nautilus: https://askubuntu.com/questions/210192/how-can-you-add-an-item-to-the-right-click-menu-in-nautilus-without-nautilus-ac#672553 You could make a bash script like shown in the post and use polkit to open the password prompt and run a command as root.
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Emacs can let you edit root files using TRAMP
There's also YaST , but that's an OpenSUSE thing.
I think you can run like this:
$ pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY <yourapp>
For example, if I wanna open kgx
(a.k.a. Gnome Console), I would run:
pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY kgx
Don't do this. I'm unsure if this works in any distro, but if it does, this is unsecure.
I see no "hostility" and "talking down" here. You shouldn't be running GUI programs with sudo, and the fact that you've been using Linux for X amount of years doesn't change that.