I wish they would change the names. It is too confusing to have both Search
and Quick Search. Quick Search should be called Filter which is what it
really is. I always have to make this parenthetical remark too and it gets
annoying. I prefer Synaptic to Software Centre because it shows me the
dependencies which are more important to me than ratings. It also has more
options to display the packages. You can sort them by origin which is handy
if you have lots of outside sources or find broken packages. It isn't
pretty, but Synaptic just works well. I use either it or apt-get most of the
time. I understand the need for the Software Centre, but it does not work
for me.