You gotta open up a web browser, and if you don't know the webpage already you gotta search for it, find the download page on that website, get passed the likely popups and other crap and then finally select the right version of the software to download.

Which is all 1000x easier and more intuitive than installing an appimage or tar.gz or whatever other 1000 Linux filetypes need to be installed using the CLI. It honestly boggles my mind that you can't understand this.

Package managers are 10000% better.

Yes I agree but we were specifically discussing software that's not found in package managers, which is a lot of it.

Putting in winget search

WTF is a winget?

no popup crap, and no fake download button ads trying to get you to install malware

If you are installing software from websites with pop-up ads and malware, that is a whole other problem not related to the OS.