Windows already has an app store (although it's pretty terrible). It's had non-networked package management for decades (through .msi files that end up as line items in Control Panel). Nowadays there seems to be a move to nuget and chocolatey.

It kind of does now: https://chocolatey.org/

I use apt-get.

If you are dependent on the linux ecosystem, it seems counter-productive to awkwardly force your workflow on another one.

It's not awkward at all. I use cmder that is using Linux subsystem beneath it.

For example:

- apt-get install php

- php -S localhost:8081

- Launch Chrome on Windows, go to localhost:8081 (it works)

There is zero awkwardness or extra configuration there. Only problem is that some things do not work properly yet (because still beta). For example `go get github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3` will not work because of some ?gcc? compilation issue. But it's getting fixed on next release.