Well this is meant mostly to @wendell (Or at least I mainly post this in hopes that he reads it 
) obviously anybody else is more than welcome to share his mind actually I would be grateful if you did ^_^.
So my issue is this: I hate windows, but I admit that quality of life is better if some aspects of my life regarding my interaction with technology involves Windows or its APIs etc.
My other issue: I need a laptop.
So I wonder two things:
A) (given the relatively low horsepower of laptops) what virtualization/docker approach would be cost effective (easier also but if itās cost effective, especially if it is free lol, and works then I dont mind the labor) to run mainly linux and as seamlessly as possible execute programs such as photpshop,CADs,games which themselves would run under windows ?
E.g does something like winapps seal the deal? I havenāt touched on it yet. Is there something more efficient and robust out there?
B) Does current hardware offer horsepower for such an experience? or will it be mainly a compromise to see if āit worksā like that?
Like my main concern is that laptops (especially ones you donāt need to break the bank for) dont have many cores.
Which basically brings us to AMD cause they have more and more ārealā cores lol and I wonder would e.g a ryzen 9 HX 370 AI (or whatever they call them nowadays ) be enough for that task?
I mean are the cores strong enough? e.g surely 12 cores are enough for one OS but what if I want to open a game, (and lets assume I have also a version that has dedicated graphics e.g 4070 mobile since it seems I cant get anything better and it is a lot expensive as is)
I guess 6 cores dedicated on the windows side of things that will run the game ( as a container or via kvm or whatever you think would be most efficient and compatible) would be enough to ādo the trickā
but would they be enough to really have me use 100% /near to, of my GPU without having regular prolonged low FPS or choppy frame rate caused by the lack of CPU power?
I wonder if you @wendell (albeit it is not your main āgigā in the youtubes to do that ) would test some stuff like this e.g which laptop configurations (370 AI vs 7945 HS for example) could support such a hybrid virtualization approach and how performant are they while doing so?
Which of them will do the job but wont break the bank?
Are all laptops with the same CPU/GPU/RAM specs equal? Or does the firmware or mobo of particular vendors introduce problems in this regard (e.g IOMMU grouping being messy or whatnot ) ?
Or you could collab with a laptop reviewer guy like Dave2D who has all the hardware at hand (or itās easy for him to get) and you providing the steps he needs to undergo in order to setup such an environment and test/bench the laptops etc.
Thermals would also be a metric like ok both X and Y can do the job but which will roast my thighs less while at it?
And before I close the post I have to stress again the main goal which is to be seamless like using mainly linux but then double click e.g on a Word icon and have MS word open like in a KDE window (or whatever desktop environment one uses ) same with games have them just be clickable via a shortcut icon and run seamlessly (under windows) at the same framerate or very close to it as if the laptop run windows natively.
Like having to double click on virtual box then clicking on the play button to open a VM with all that junky usb pass-through stuff etc and mouse hovering on and off the vm window finicky business or have a window inside a window etc and full screen to avoid āwindowceptionā or what not (and have all the performance penalties involved) is not going to cut it for me
