Comment 143 for bug 1575053

I've been using ubuntu since its first version and I've put up with some unfortunate decisions through all those releases because trade-offs always seemed to be worth it, and not once I've been tempted to be rude to ubuntu developers.

That changed today when I finally decided to investigate what was in that ~/snap folder and why it was constantly reappearing in my home folder and I found this bug report. I get that you made some wrong assumptions and now it's hard to change the initial design, but I just don't get how you can openly talk down to seriously frustrated users and downplay the issue for more than two years.

Anyway... for those of you wondering how to get rid of these folders, just remove snap:

sudo apt-get remove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap

If you're on a fresh ubuntu 18.10 install, you might want to install the non-snap versions of the couple of system apps that were installed by default using snap:

sudo apt-get install gnome-system-monitor gnome-calculator