An update on ~~App Store~~ Ubuntu Store

Hello all,

Back from leave this week so I’m excited to jump back into the conversation!

Wrt the launcher name, I believe the current approach is to name the launcher Ubuntu Software when running on plain ole Ubuntu, and then to name it Software otherwise. I think we could do a similar approach here, although I do like the App Center suggestion from @carlo.gamna above which would remove that requirement.

To @simonsaysthis, I believe there is work ongoing on how to identify ‘stale’ snaps so hopefully we can simply apply a filter in the search results to address this.

You can install the Store locally by running sudo snap refresh snap-store --channel=preview/edge/ubuntu-23.10, but I expect it should become the default on mantic shortly.

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