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I think this thread belongs in the laptops and prebuilts subforum but dont worry the mods will move it eventually
 
I think whatever ryzen 5 4500u laptop you can find will be more than enough for your needs
 
though you will want to add an extra 8gb stick to make sure your laptop runs in dual channel cause single channel cripples cpu and igpu performance
 
and you may want to raise tdp by max 5w and oc the igpu in ryzen controller for gaming

Not familiar with it, unfortunately. Maybe someone else can provide more info. However, I was able to find this: https://deviwiki.com/wiki/AzureWave_AW-CB231NF
 
According to the page, it probably uses the driver "ath10k" which has been in the Linux kernel since version 4.4 (Jan 2016). Ubuntu 20.10 is on kernel version 5.8, so I would expect it to work out of the box. It's possible some distributions don't include that driver in their kernel by default, or maybe have it blacklisted due to known issues.
 
So I'd probably try some recent version of Ubuntu (or a derived distribution like Mint, PopOS, …) and see if it works.
 
Most modern distributions should include drivers as "kernel modules" meaning they aren't compiled into the kernel itself and instead are available as modules that can be loaded at runtime as needed. Assuming ath10k is indeed the correct driver you could check if it is available as a kernel module like this:
sudo find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ -name '*' | grep ath10 You can find the list of loaded modules with "sudo lsmod" and try to enable a module with "sudo modprope <name>"

No you cannot use wine for installing drivers.  Drivers built for windows is not the same for linux

hm. Try 20H2 or 21H1 and see if its different. We all know how Windows fucks up for some, but for some not

EDIT:
Try Gamemode that may be the thing i meant.

I have to say I didn't think of that at all, thanks !
I did test it, and, as expected, it didn't throttle.
I kinda expected it since this PC has no active cooling, and I've seen it hoter before ^^

I think you talking about the windows keycap.
I was refering to the windows activation key ^^

It finnaly worked ! Thanks so much for your help, have a great day my saviour ! XP

Hi,
Around here, the 1060, the 1660, the 570 ans the 580 will be around 250 to 300$. They are all good options, the fight is more about 1660 or 580 condidering their better performance.
Should I trade the 10% increase in raw performance for 2g VRAM ?

And the  i5 9400F is 160 bucks, so it's complety within range, I'll look into a few benchmarks and consider it as option 1

Download windirstat. It shows all files and their sizes. Windows also takes up quite a bit of storage.

Thanks @Fixinit1, I'll check that out. Thank you for helping