What’s the current best way to run docker on Windows?

I’m still using wsl(2) for that in 2025 because it seems to be the path of least resistance on Win11.

Im not sure the software center being half baked is even the real problem.

One of the nice things about Windows is that you dont need a central, curated, repository for software. You can google the thing you want and just download an msi/exe of the latest stable version and, 99.9% of the time, leading back to your first point, it will just work.