I'm a big fan of my Deck, but I think Steam-related software projects always have a distinctive low-level stink.

I use mine on a train that has Wi-Fi with a captive portal and attempting to join it makes the whole UI unresponsive. Using the overlay with a guide in a game always resets the scroll location. These are the kind of things I can live with, but also things I don't expect ever to be fixed unless Valve come out with some wholesale replacement for some overt new strategic goal.

Lenovos in my experience are pretty flawless in both Windows and Linux -- my current laptop is a Lenovo and sleep/wake has worked flawlessly in Debian and Windows 11. My work laptop is a HP and sleep/wake also works fine in Windows. I've had the occassional power issues (including failures to wake from sleep) with Intel MacBooks previously for both personal and work laptops.

I have a Steam Deck and love it but it still cannot suspend and wake without the audio crackling issue - other than that it is magical though. (The pause games decky plugin is a third party solution that fixes it!)

I was pretty disappointed when my work MacBook ran into the same "Bluetooth headset connected, set as audio sink, but the OS refuses to acknowledge its existence further and routes audio through the speakers" but that I've seen on every other desktop OS. I really hoped Apple would be better, considering their hardware costs more than twice as much.

I also ran into weird Wi-Fi issues that required a reboot, and getting that thing to recognize external displays without corrupting video is some kind of dark art while my Lenovo and Steam Deck work just fine with the same USB C plug.

Apple beats some brands for sure (especially the cheap "consumer" lines with a starting price lower than Apple's headphones) but their computers are hardly flawless.

I have yet to run into issues with my Steam Deck, which is very impressive, but I'm sure I'll run into an issue at some point. No computer works flawlessly.

Macbook essentially involved Apple hardcoding 11th hour fixes selected by product code in their OS level drivers after utterly fucking up ACPI tables in ways that would make the discussed bug blush. Pretty much most of what BootCamp did on later models, and what various hackintosh "special drivers" did, was fix things like HDA tables located in completely wrong place.

Steam Deck is just... extensively tested and debugged in ways that I don't think Apple did unless they got an egg on the face in national media (remember "you're holding it wrong?")