+1

When I finally had to use snap a year or so ago I installed a few other
applications.  I had to fix a .desktop file in one of the snaps.  Got
confused why I couldn't edit the offending file as root, realized they
were mounted read-only images.

A few week later saw $HOME/snap and figured it was just left over from
my previous investigation since genuine Linux programs [0] usually don't
do things like that and nuked it.  Realized my mistake when the snap
programs all lost their data.

This is one of those things that confused me and could scare less
experienced users into thinking it's some sort of virus or nefarious
actor.

[0]: A few current offenders include: Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio, ST
Micro STM32CubeMX, Xilinx Vivado; you see the trend.  There are other
these are just the recent ones.

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  Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

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