chocolatey is a powershell script, whenever you run it it needs to initialize dotnet and the JIT needs to do its work
one downside:
i should be included in windows, and not having to install from the store, like wtf did they smoke?
It is included in Windows 11
The next feature update is Windows 11. I don't believe you should expect new features in 10 anymore, that wouldn't make much sense.
Also, winget is slowly getting installed automatically on Windows 10 (all the way back to the Anniversary Update if machines are still running 1607 for some reason but also still getting Microsoft/Windows Store updates, to my understanding).
Fair enough and your point about feature updates for 10 ending makes sense. My point is that I shouldn't have to use the store for a feature like this.
I avoid the store completely and have never installed anything from it. I don't think useful system features like this should be part of the store at all.
So you might even already have this.
in fact.. even if you don't use store for anything else i advise you to open it and make sure everything is updated (no login or accounts needed). There are some windows components with critical bugs that are updated trough the store like HEIF codecs.
On many Windows 10 machines without intentional store blocks just typing "winget" works now.