> It’s « just » a tool which will fetch installation manifests on a centralized Microsoft GitHub repository and execute it. The winget repo has a ton of useful

> It’s « just » a tool which will fetch installation manifests on a centralized Microsoft GitHub repository and execute it. The winget repo has a ton of useful installation manifests, sure, but isn't "just" a tool to fetch manifests from that one repo. (Also, it doesn't fetch the data directly from GitHub, even though that is the source of truth, it has a light REST service in between which does a lot of caching and DDoS management and what have you.) Winget also by default installs Windows Store apps, too. It's also configurable so you can add your own installation manifest repos if you wish (such as on-premise private feeds).