It really depends the kind of laptops. Gaming laptops with nvidua gpus and exotic stuff? maybe. Business laptops with intel everything from integrated graphics to lan/wifi are usually painless. That has been my experience on Fedora in the last 15 years.
Caveat being to do some research before purchase about support of third party devices like printers or scanner.
Caveat being to do some research before purchase about support of third party devices like printers or scanner.