If it's an old laptop, you might not. But, I can't run CentOS on my laptop as a third of the hardware, including the GPU, wouldn't work. At least, I couldn't wh

If it's an old laptop, you might not. But, I can't run CentOS on my laptop as a third of the hardware, including the GPU, wouldn't work. At least, I couldn't when I got it. But, Fedora is pretty darned good about Just Working, in my experience. Because my laptop was a super new design when I got it, things were a bit shakey (I ended up using the Windows it came with for about a month because GPU drivers weren't working under Linux and running at any high res caused it to lock up frequently). But, once I was able to get all the right drivers and everything was working, I haven't had to do anything, even through a Fedora 25->26 upgrade (I have the nvidia drivers, but I got them from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo, so they update in the normal way).