Didn't really hop much, started with Windows, went on to OSX, got annoyed at it and ran Arch in a VM until I was comfortable with it, then went bare-metal with it.
Happy Arch user for some years now, though recently I'm using Fedora for work and I really like it. It's not a good fit for some machines I'm running which need a lot of customisations to run properly.
I'm not sure why they specifically say laptop, and then don't mention what's different to a desktop PC.
Then you click on the linked NVIDIA article and the first comment says, that it also happens on their desktop.