[gambiting]

I don't understand how people aren't screaming about point 10 - I haven't had a linux distro which didn't do that, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch - they all had this exact issue.

I close my laptop, it goes into sleep mode, I open the screen and my desktop is just there, I can happily use the browser, open apps, run commands, whatever, and then 10-20 seconds later the lock screen kicks in. It's insane that the architecture of the system even allows it to happen.

[sesqu]

IIRC it's because the Ubuntu screen locking is tied to screensavers. I can't remember how I solved it for myself, but it involved invoking a much baser system to lock the screen.

[gambiting]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's because the "lock screen" is just another process running on top of the desktop capturing all input and for whatever reason sometimes it takes longer than normal to start. But if that's the case, then the design is fundamentally wrong - it should be written in such a way that the desktop cannot display at all unless the state changes to "unlocked" somewhere deeper in the system.

[Piskvorrr]

Interesting. Never got this on a variety of laptops with Kubuntu or LXLE: always a lockscreen when I expected it.