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Purpose of Uap5:AppExecutionAlias vs Uap3
The Uap3 schema includes the ability to define an AppExecutionAlias as an extension to an app (uap3:AppExecutionAlias - Windows UWP applications | Microsoft Learn), and this has been recommended to u...
Presumably it sets the subsystem PE header in the synthetic executable, meaning that if the app being aliased is a command line app that needs to output text to the console, it should be "console" and if it's a GUI app it should be "windows".
Hmm. That sounds like an advantage without any disadvantages and we should be using uap5 since uap5 is available on currently supported OSs.