For most users this is great. Instead of having to find where to download python and install it, Microsoft will do it for you from the store. How is this different than ubuntu suggesting the apt command when you type a command?
As one example (with a relatively trivial fix): the deep subfolder it gets installed in can cause path length issues [0]. There's a trivial fix (registry edit) to enable long paths, but that's not very user friendly. This affected me immediately--the first package I tried to install failed (possibly htop? I can't remember anymore...)
apt installs packages for the system as a whole. Microsoft store does not.
I closed the store as soon as it opened and it never occurred to me to see if there was python packaged in the store. If they were positioning the store as a reputable place to find curated software I'd be a little more charitable to the behavior as a feature to save users a step.
I'm probably cynical but I think they're positioning the store as a way to extract commissions from software devs. As such I'd much rather download direct from python.org and this redirection behavior left a bad taste.
