Not show annoying popups about licenses?

Encryption?

7z is better than rar and its algorithm is fully open source

No, the point of the windows store is that Microsoft gets more control over your machine.

Code downloaded from websites can still be (and is) signed; when it’s not you get that box where you have to click “Run Anyway”

I think the point of the Windows store is to coerce developers into either using the Visual Studio environment and beta testing new package formats, or paying MS a fee to get a signed certificate.

I got some specifics wrong and didn’t explain my sentiment well. See dev_null’s response below and my reply to it.

You can try chocolatey store then. Community maintained.

Pretty sure they’re signed by Microsoft instead? At least that’s what other app stores do.

It’s all a game of shifting the point of trust around. Personally, I’d trust most small time developers more than the likes of Microsoft and Google, however I’d trust Fdroid more than unknown developers (but still go direct to the developers I do trust).

Doesnt winget use the same store?

Asking if something is secure on an insecure OS. Seriously, both the program and the repositories are on github:

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs

So you be the judge.