Back in the day, I used the Atom editor a lot and when I heard that the original developers have published Zed, a successor to Atom, I installed it. Before long, I realized that Zed is not for me. If you are in the same situation, then here is how to uninstall Zed via the terminal. rm -rf $HOME/.local/zed.app rm -rf $HOME/.local/bin/zed rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/zed To remove the app icon, I used: rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/dev.zed.Zed.desktop