Gnome File manager - how to get non-readonly mode

On Silverblue, I always used Nemo filemanager (installed via rpm-ostree, replacing Nautilus) and Mousepad text editor because Gnome text editor doesn’t do it for me.

However after a reinstall I decided to not do any layering. Flatpak only. This also means I will give the native File Manager (Nautilus?) a try.
It works fine, except for this:

With Nemo, I could right click in or on any folder and open with root rights. For example /etc and then I could open fstab in my texteditor and edit it.

With Nautilus, there is no context menu option to do that. There are (a bug??) 2 options, open in Terminal and open in Console. But no GUI option.

This means, I cannot edit non-user files in Mousepad. For example /etc/fstab. I can only use Terminal and for example nano.

Is there a way to allow editing text files via the GUI, without going to Terminal first?

KDE and GNOME both have this option

Enter admin://etc/ in the location bar

(Not sure how many slashes)

I understand there is an even easier way thats build into other file managers but not by default available in Nautilus. Via Nautilus Extensions you get the admin extension. It adds a right click context menu option.

To my suprise, Nautilus extensions, made possible by Gnome Project, are not Gnome extensions. Very strange and inconsistent!

It means you’d have to use rpm-ostree layering just for adding small functionality to the file manager, possibly breaking smooth updates by doing so. That’s really too bad :frowning:

But thanks for the workaround I’ll use that for now until it annoys me.