Sure. Add "Get the actual official Python from python.org, not whatever mess Microsoft has cooked up" as step 0. If you do use Microsoft's Python distribution

Sure. Add "Get the actual official Python from python.org, not whatever mess Microsoft has cooked up" as step 0. If you do use Microsoft's Python distribution though, are you saying that it provides neither "python3" nor "py"? How do you use it then? According to the docs[0] the Microsoft Store package should provide "python" and "python3" commands (effectively unsolving the problem solved by the Python launcher, I guess?) so either my original suggestion of "python3" or my subsequent suggestion of "py -3" should work, depending on which distribution was installed. [0] https://docs.python.org/3.11/using/windows.html#the-microsoft-store-package https://docs.python.org/3.11/using/windows.html#the-microsof...