As Microsoft shutters App Center today, many devs are on the lookout for a replacement..

Here's a thing I wrote on the history of App Center from its HockeyApp origins, why it's a loss, and why Buildstash (which I'm building!) may be the replacement you need

https://blog.buildstash.com/visual-studio-app-center-closes-what-now/

Exactly that is true: #Fragmentation kills the EU!

• Instead of levying #tariffs on #GAFAMs comitting #CapitalFlight and #TaxEvasion, the #EU decided to basically kill #domestic #competition with bs. like demanding that #AppStores have to pay #VAT / #GST / #SalesTax in the customers' nation.

That's why there's no #AndroidPit #AppCenter anymore!

• And I do know that #Zensursula or the @EUCommission don't really give a wet fart about that, because they want a #SurveillanceState and #PoliceState and would rather choose to die from #LateStageCapitalism than accept the necessity for #SystemChangeNotClimateChange!

Thanks again to @dw_innovation / #DWnews for that video.

Why did I only just find this now?! Great stuff for people looking for App Center Crash replacement.

In this repository you can find an overview of different crashlytics services and what they support specific to .NET MAUI apps

https://github.com/mattleibow/CloudyCrashReporting

L’App Center di Ubuntu può ora installare i pacchetti in formato DEB
#Ubuntu #Canonical #appcenter #deb #linux #UnoLinux
Canonical ha in queste ore rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento per il suo App Center che ripristina la possibilità di installare i pacchetti in formato DEB.

https://www.marcosbox.com/2024/07/13/lapp-center-di-ubuntu-puo-ora-installare-i-pacchetti-in-formato-deb/

Ubuntu’s App Center Updated, Can Now Open/Install DEB Packages

Ubuntu’s Flutter-based App Center can now open and install 3rd-party DEB installers. An App Center update that adds support for ‘side-loading’ DEB packages began rolling out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in the past few weeks (but as snaps update in the background silently, without any indication or alert, I only just noticed). To be clear: this is about being able to install DEB packages you download from the web (e.g., Google Chrome, Discord, Steam, Vivaldi, Slack, etc) using App Center. It’s not about installing DEBs from the Ubuntu repos, which was already possible. With this update it is
#News #AppCenter #AppUpdates #Ubuntu24_04Lts

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/app-center-update-adds-deb-install-support

DEB Installers in Ubuntu App Center Coming Soon

One of the biggest drawback to Ubuntu’s new App Center, the Flutter-based replacement for GNOME’s Software Center, is that it doesn’t let you install DEBs downloaded from the web. To be clear (since confusion often creeps in) the Ubuntu App Center does allow you to install DEB software so long as it’s the Ubuntu repos. What it doesn’t (currently) do, which the many software center incarnations over the years did, is ‘side load’ DEB packages. But, at long last, this feature is coming. On the App Center Github there’s been a spurt of activity in a pull request to plumb
#News #AppCenter

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/deb-installer-in-ubuntu-app-center-coming-soon

Ubuntu | Snap Store got a facelift

Inside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: just open the App Center to install Snaps (+all other packages) from one spot.

◉New handy category sidebar
◉Featured Snaps highlighted
◉The search bar enhanced
◉Store in web enables Snaps on any Linux / browser / on phone too
◉Both free & open source / proprietary apps
◉There are ~8500 Snaps

►https://snapcraft.io/store

Visual Studio App Center user looking for a new home?

Check out Buildstash.com - we're building the App Center alternative we always wanted. With automated build streams, releases, powerful sharing and distribution features, as well as seamless app store deployment.

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-is-killing-visual-studio-app-center-next-year-set-to-retire-in-march-2025/

Microsoft #AppCenter will be retired next year. I've been mostly using it for internal distribution - partially to avoid all google restrictions and whining.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/retirement

The Odd-Looking ‘App Center’ Icon in Ubuntu 23.10 is Being Fixed

About a week ago I noticed the icon for App Center (the Flutter-based software store-front that replaced Ubuntu Software in 23.10) had changed — and not for the better! At first I assumed it was a snafu caused by me. See, I only noticed the change when I was playing around with scaling options (I was seeing whether 200% scaling on my 2K laptop screen was as bad as I remembered, or if it was just me being a fop for fractional scaling). Anyway, it wasn’t a “me” thing. As App Center is a snap (snap-store ) it gets updated
#News #AppCenter #Ubuntu23_10

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/ubuntu-app-center-wrong-icon-fix

Gentle reminder that when you build apps for #Flatpak you can choose to publish in a store like #AppCenter or #FlatHub, but you can also host your own and completely avoid platform rules and fees. No walled gardens and your apps are available to the entire family of Linux-based operating systems

This is how the new App Center in Ubuntu 23.10 does when you click or double-click on a deb file to install it. Basically I can no longer install deb files, as I could with the old Software Center.

Installing Deb Packages in Ubuntu 23.10 is Harder Than It Should Be

When you double click on a deb package in Ubuntu 23.10 an error will say “there is no app installed for Debian package files”. In this post I show you how to work around it. Most of us are accustomed to double-clicking on local deb files to install them (even Chrome OS lets you do this from its native file manager if the Linux development environment is turned on). But in Ubuntu 23.10 it doesn’t work. The spangly new App Center in Ubuntu 23.10 isn’t (currently) able to open, handle, or install deb packages downloaded from the web (despite said
#HowTo #News #AppCenter #Gdebi #Ubuntu23_10

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/install-deb-ubuntu-23-10-no-app-error

Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New

Get ready to grab the bull by the horns as Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ is now available to download. This update is a short-term release supported by 9 months of ongoing support, bug fixes, and critical app updates. While it may not sound long (because it isn’t, all told) remember that Ubuntu 24.04 is out in April 2024 as a long-term support release with 5 years of support. Summarising Ubuntu 23.10 in just one word is tricky, but ‘refinement’ feels an apt choice. GNOME 45 brings a bevvy of buffs to the core desktop experience; improved window tiling; a sharper-looking
#News #AppCenter #Gnome45 #ManticMinotaur #Ubuntu23_10

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/ubuntu-23-10-new-features-download-link

A new version of my little weather app Nimbus is available on #AppCenter and to download as a #Flatpak ref! It now shows wind speed, visibility, and pressure. Check it out https://appcenter.elementary.io/io.github.danirabbit.nimbus/