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I'm also curious as to what is tiresome running as a regular user. I'm a developer and run two users (standard/admin) without any issue. Only issue I run into is having to switch to the admin user to run brew.

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Remember when Apple made a delusional commercial that mocked UAC [1] yet here we are over 15 years later and it looks like Microsoft was the one that got it right. Under Windows you can have multiple windows open each running as different users.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUPxkzV1RTc

...which you can do with:

    su - admin

You can also run gui apps as admin, like:

    sudo -u admin /System/Applications/Utilities/Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console

Don't forget dragging the app onto the terminal window completes the path

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