Oneplus 8 - Manual installation leads to a phone stuck in fastboot mode

If you believe the device is soft bricked, you are confirming it if you really cannot connect to fastboot, then I believe you will need to get access to Windows.

Here are two links in case this helps give a different perspective from the youtube link.

Re Windows, in another forum post the possibility of a Windows VM on cloud was mentioned https://www.cloudbik.com/resources/blog/create-windows-virtual-machine-azure/. Reference here.