I’ve an HP Pavilion Laptop (14-dv2500sa) – the touch screen doesn’t work with Linux, due to a UEFI issue. After updating UEFI, I noticed Fedora reporting the battery as empty when it clearly wasn’t (because it was still on).
There’s a setting that reports the battery status, which defaulted to disabled, from what I gather it’s a soft battery disconnect for storage. No clue why it’s enabled by default but dear God the update process was painful.
I’ve not got a laptop running Windows, so ended up using Boxes to run Windows just to create the USB key. Even that was tempremental as I had to choose a specific EFI key to boot from.