Not very hard.

I recently had to reinstall Win11. I don't use it, but I needed to keep it around.

Windows Update does not update packages from the Windows Store, or vice versa.

Aside from the dozens of external driver packages you need, and even using Ninite to get a basic set of working apps, you still need 2 totally separate tools to update Windows.

It says a lot about how bad Linux on the desktop still is today that some poor misled fools still think that Win11 plus WSL2 is a better Linux than Linux.

I've been on Windows 10 (because i use Linux as my main OS in recent years and only boot Windows once every few months), so i don't know the latest details.

Can Windows install the Visual C++ runtimes yet?

Third-party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolatey

Chocolatey is great but has its own pile of quirks.