That's very interesting. I thought that intel Wi-Fi cards can't do AP mode anywhere. I had no luck on ubuntu and openwrt. Didn't know Windows could help. I'll try to build a Windows VM with passthrough.
Nowadays you can easily run it on a single board computer like the raspberry pi or any x86 mini pcs. You just need to hook up an access point for Wi-Fi which doesn't need to be able to run openwrt.
Thanks. I want to run linux because that's what I've used for the past 15 years :) The company I work for has provided us with intel Macbooks, but rarely use it. Instead i do all my work using my own Thinkbook 14s Yoga running Fedora.
Awesome, thanks much.