I made it a habit before clean-installing an OS to my Dell laptop, to also power-button hold for 30 secs and reset CMOS/NVRAM too. There was a board where I had some lingering UEFI var cause an issue years ago.
With my Dell I can also set fan speed profiles through smbios, and take care of that from a Linux LiveUSB at some point post-install so I don’t need the tools on the OS itself.
And in-case EC is ever an issue on Linux vs Windows, faking Windows OSI on Linux can workaround that: Fedora 40 kde battery percentage not updating/always in charge - #19 by Espionage724