I, really, wouldn't mind installing most of my software from Microsoft maintained repositories. The kinds of things that drive me nuts are when these are the ON

I, really, wouldn't mind installing most of my software from Microsoft maintained repositories. The kinds of things that drive me nuts are when these are the ONLY place you can get things and you can't just add other repos like you can on any Linux setup. Managing distro variations doesn't really come into why I like to use centralized repositories. If winget had appeared a decade or two earlier it might have replaced the need for every Windows app to ship an auto-updater.