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> The last time I used Windows seriously, which was Windows 10, this was not the case.

Apps like Chrome and Spotify have been doing it for almost 20 years, since they made their Windows apps back in 2008. Python updated their installer to install to the user profile in 2015 with version 3.5.0. VSCode started doing it in 2018. Discord did it at launch in 2015. Zoom and Teams and Slack do it and have for a long time. Its been a pretty common pattern for a long time.

> Windows doesn't have native containers

Windows supports Windows containers natively and has supported Windows containers for a decade.

> maybe then Windows on ARM wouldn't suck so much.

Windows on Arm these days really isn't bad. It definitely sucked a lot several years ago with tons of compatibility issues (along the timeframe you said you last used it seriously), but they've made massive improvements since.

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While windows has containers, I’ve never seen them seriously used and realistically nobody is leaving docker or podman. I include podman in that because Red Hat was smart and made podman almost a direct drop in.

I’m very cynical about windows. Mostly because windows is bad in almost every way software can be bad.