There are three known potentially problematic areas and they are well documented. apple stuff, wifi cards, laptops and their custom sleep code. aside from appl

There are three known potentially problematic areas and they are well documented. apple stuff, wifi cards, laptops and their custom sleep code. aside from apple stuff (who have made it quite clear they believe their users want a totally walled garden and are not interested in compatabilty with the rest of the world), the other two are now rare afaik. so if it happens to you regularily, then yeah, very likely it is nothing more than your distro sucks.