am i an old curmudgeon or am i right in saying that windows application distribution still largely lives and dies on zips (indie/oss) and msi's (corps) with the microsoft app store and various package managers being very niche things?
clarification: exe-based installers are in the same family as "msi" for the sake of this discussion (aiui a lot of them ultimately wrap msi's)
@Gankra No, that's about right unless you count things like Steam.
Partially because well trusting the MS Store seemed like a not great idea
@Gankra https://www.eurogamer.net/gabe-newell-right-declare-windows-8-a-catastrophe
Basically the concern from a lot of devs is MS wanted a thing like the app store, where they take a huge cut and lock out other methods of distrubution
@Doephin oh? did they do anything in particular or is this general distrust of ms?