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Documenting commands # or $ before sudo?
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I disagree completely.
The bad practice is running commands directly as root. It's fine if you prefer for your own environment but sudo is the best practice.
Additionally, which distro doesn't have sudo? I'm sure there are some but by far the majority of distos have and use sudo.
Bad practice is not using sudo (I do use it), but assuming that everyone has sudo installed and configured the same way as you have.
Almost all distros have sudo. But many of them don't install it by default. Most popular distros except Ubuntu (I mean Debian, Fedora and RHEL clones) provide a choice to user at install time: set the root password or install sudo and enable it for the admin user. In OpenSUSE sudo is installed by default, however it is configured in slightly different way than usually. Etc., etc.