Never thought of using winget. Ninite or chocolatey work well enough, but yeah, nice.

The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

I do quite bit of windows installs. I usually use edge once, to either set up chocolate or use ninite, and download sane stuff. Then I hide edge as much as possible.