Windows client: per-user installer + portable zip as the default download — a stable exe path Steam can launch (overlay, Big Picture); MSIX stays for the Store #349

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enricobuehler b03acc9153 Windows client: ship a per-user Inno Setup installer + portable zip as the default download; keep the MSIX for the Store
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A user report: launching via Big Picture doesn't work and the Steam overlay never appears.
Not because the app is UWP (it's full-trust Win32 under MSIX too) but because of the MSIX
install SHAPE: the exe lives under the ACL'd WindowsApps dir Steam's non-Steam-game picker
can't browse, and alias/shell:AppsFolder activation defeats the overlay's injection — Steam
must spawn the exe itself from a normal path.

- punktfunk-client.iss: per-user (no UAC) install to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Punktfunk.
  Re-creates the manifest's grants in HKCU (punktfunk:// scheme, Start entries, {app} on the
  user PATH for the punktfunk CLI) and fetches the Windows App Runtime when missing.
- pack-client-installer.ps1: consumes pack-msix.ps1's layout (one assembly, three artifacts),
  signs the four exes individually, emits setup.exe + a portable zip. Same signing backends
  and fail-closed-on-tags rule as the sibling scripts; no .cer (an exe runs untrusted).
- windows-client.yml: pack step after the MSIX, publish + release-attach the new artifacts
  (canary/latest aliases punktfunk-client-setup_<arch>.exe, ..._<arch>-portable.zip).
- deeplink.rs: write_shortcut targets the app-execution alias only under package identity;
  unpackaged installs have no alias but a stable path, so they target current_exe().
  has_package_identity() now shared with main.rs's AppUserModelID probe.
- docs: install-client (installer default + a 'Launching through Steam' section + MSIX/portable
  as alternates), channels, uninstall, clients, platforms.json (both copies, drift check green).
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