Recently a friend of mine asked me to help him with his Surface laptop. He was unable to install Windows whatever he tried. I didn't believe him but it was exac

Recently a friend of mine asked me to help him with his Surface laptop. He was unable to install Windows whatever he tried. I didn't believe him but it was exactly as he said - during the first boot the laptop would turn off and then show a generic error next boot. Ubuntu worked just fine. What was the issue? Immediately after power management initialization during the first boot the system seen that the battery was in a bad condition and tried to hibernate but for some reason crashed instead. Out of warranty, the battery is extremely hard to replace, so a registry quirk injected through a Linux boot cd immediately after setup helped. Is Windows actually ready for desktop?