I am having a hard time with root
whenever i run sudo su and then nano ~/.zshrc, edit my file to add PATHs followed by a source ~/.zshrc, it works just fine.
That until i run sudo su myuser to go back to my default user.
When i do that all my previous settings on root are undone, and if i go back and check ~/.zshrc it has no PATHs configured and doesnt work as intented.
Does anyone know why this happens? And how to fix it?
The problem you're having, is that ~ resolves to the home directory for the current user. So when logged in as root, ~ points to root's home directory (usually at /root), whereas for myuser, ~ points at myuser's home directory (usually /home/myuser), so you're actually editing different files.