I think what you mean is that it has only taken you this long to find out that windows has package managers.
Winget is 3 years old. It rips off AppGet, which was quite a bit older. Chocolatey is a decade old. Scoop is about 4.
But a package manager on windows is more a convenience than a necessity, because it has SxS to resolve dependency hell. AFAIK, no other OS has that feature, which is why package maintenance is such a task for Linux distros and builders of old source code.
