In my experience winapps doesn't work well enough to use for work. I had almost constant issues with it.
I struggled like you for a long time until I found a happy medium. I have a folder on my C: drive called utilities. It's been added to the %PATH%. In it, I have eget with a config for all my utilities for making Windows easier to use. I also have BusyBox for Windows.
It emulates a good 90% of *nix utilities without having to deal with WSL (older environments) or doing anything extensive to your environment (corporate laptop friendly). I recommend you at least give it a try and see if it works for you.
Here's my ~/.config/eget.toml
❯ cat eget.toml
[global]
github_token = ""
quiet = false
show_hash = false
upgrade_only = true
system = "windows/amd64"
["sharkdp/fd"]
asset_filters = ["gnu"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\fd.exe"
["nojima/httpie-go"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ht.exe"
["schollz/croc"]
asset_filters = ["64bit", "Windows7" ]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\croc.exe"
["BurntSushi/ripgrep"]
asset_filters = ["pc-windows-gnu", "^sha256"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\rg.exe"
["go-task/task"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\task.exe"
["vamolessa/verco"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\verco.exe"
["ajeetdsouza/zoxide"]
asset_filters = ["msvc"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\zoxide.exe"
["ducaale/xh"]
asset_filters = ["msvc"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\xhs.exe"
["casey/just"]
asset_filters = ["msvc"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\just.exe"
["sxyazi/yazi"]
asset_filters = ["msvc"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\yazi.exe"
["Dundee/gdu"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\gdu.exe"
["charmbracelet/skate"]
asset_filters = ["x86_64", "^json"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\skate.exe"
["charmbracelet/gum"]
asset_filters = ["x86_64", ".zip", "^json"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\gum.exe"
["Wilfred/difftastic"]
asset_filters = ["msvc"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\diff.exe"
["zyedidia/eget"]
asset_filters = ["zip", "amd64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\eget.exe"
["sharkdp/diskus"]
asset_filters = ["gnu"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\diskus.exe"
["fastfetch-cli/fastfetch"]
asset_filters = ["zip"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\fetch.exe"
["junegunn/fzf"]
asset_filters = ["zip"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\fzf.exe"
["orf/gping"]
asset_filters = ["zip"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\gping.exe"
["jqlang/jq"]
asset_filters = ["amd64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\jq.exe"
["caarlos0/jsonfmt"]
asset_filters = [".tar.gz"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\jsonfmt.exe"
["lsd-rs/lsd"]
asset_filters = ["pc-windows-msvc.zip"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\lsd.exe"
["ouch-org/ouch"]
asset_filters = ["gnu"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\pack.exe"
["SpatiumPortae/portal"]
asset_filters = ["x86_64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\pack.exe"
["rclone/rclone"]
asset_filters = ["amd64", "zip"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\rclone.exe"
["upx/upx"]
asset_filters = ["win64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\upx.exe"
["mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd"]
asset_filters = ["x64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\7z.exe"
["facebook/zstd"]
asset_filters = ["win64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\zstd.exe"
["yt-dlp/yt-dlp"]
asset_filters = ["yt-dlp.exe"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\yt-dlp.exe"
["aria2/aria2"]
asset_filters = ["win", "64bit"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\aria2c.exe"
["restic/restic"]
asset_filters = ["windows", "amd64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\restic.exe"
["Beastwick18/nyaa"]
asset_filters = ["windows", "exe"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\nyaa.exe"
["walles/moar"]
asset_filters = ["windows"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\moar.exe"
["alecthomas/chroma"]
asset_filters = ["amd64", "windows"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\chroma.exe"
["charmbracelet/glow"]
asset_filters = ["x86_64", "^json"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\glow.exe"
["arsham/blush"]
asset_filters = ["windows", "zip"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\blush.exe"
["nushell/nushell"]
asset_filters = ["pc-windows-msvc.zip"]
file = "nu.exe"
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\nu.exe"
["owenthereal/ccat"]
asset_filters = ["windows-amd64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ccat.exe"
["FiloSottile/age"]
asset_filters = ["windows-amd64.zip", "^proof"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\age.exe"
["Owloops/updo"]
asset_filters = ["Windows_x86_64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\updo.exe"
["mr-karan/doggo"]
asset_filters = ["Windows_x86_64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\dog.exe"
["aandrew-me/tgpt"]
asset_filters = ["amd64", "exe"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\llm.exe"
["8LWXpg/ptr"]
asset_filters = ["x86_64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ptr.exe"
["astral-sh/ruff"]
asset_filters = ["pc-windows", "msvc", "x86_64"]
target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ruff.exe"
It's nice because you can update everything by running eget --download-all.
