Just got back into Lemmy after a few months of not coming in (joined during the Reddit API protests), and yeah it really is lmao.
If it's the firmware update itself that's faulty, the faulty update could've been applied on Linux, as HP uploads their updates to LVFS. If it's the process that's faulty (i.e. application corrupts memory while writing the flash), then the commenter might have a point given that Windows Update doesn't discriminate between working and broken updates.