Don't rely on any env vars to determine $HOME

[johnsca]

Some build environments (i.e., Jenkins) don't set $USER, and in the snap, $HOME is set to something other than the user's home directory. So we need to get the correct path in a way that doesn't rely on those env vars.

Fixes #367

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