alt Hacker News> What's the Windows equivalent of dpkg (from 1993) and ssh (from 1995)?
PowerShell PackageManagement [1] and Remoting [2]
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
They are not exactly equivalents, but that's not the point. I try to expand on this answer in the sibling comment.
What's important to notice however, is that the oldest of these are from 2009. At no time in the intervening 15 years (!) did someone say "Windows is unusable for desktops because it is not manageable".