I'm not a super gee-whiz technical guy, but what exactly are you getting out of a windows installer vs *.exe + ENV variables? I personally prefer software that

I'm not a super gee-whiz technical guy, but what exactly are you getting out of a windows installer vs *.exe + ENV variables? I personally prefer software that just runs as packaged executable, and I can add system variables either at launch or by myself. It's always a little sus when a tool doesn't have a portable release. It's sort of my secret solution to using software I need from gimped userland, although I know it lights alarms in the big InfoSec secret dungeon. Luckily, they're lights for "Visual Studio Code", so that "alarm" is on all the time.