I don't know about that. If you search around you'll find that the two most common problems people have even installing linux (any variety) on a laptop is wake

I don't know about that. If you search around you'll find that the two most common problems people have even installing linux (any variety) on a laptop is wake from suspend and power consumption. Very few of these laptops have discrete GPUs. As to sudden restarts, this has never happened to me.