MacOS doesn’t have a secure desktop either.

Did you even read the article? "Hold enter, unlock Gnome-screensaver."

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1308572

If you go back to an older GNOME version you can probably also find the current Cinnamon bug in there, it is in libcaribou after all.

I switched from XFCE to Cinnamon after I couldn't get on with Gnome, Cinnamon is (for my use case) way less "janky" than Gnome since the only way to get close to what I consider a pleasant productive desktop on Gnome is to install a bunch of very buggy plugins.

Cinnamon at least makes operating like a classic DE a first order priority and it works nice across multiple screens.

KDE does the same but aesthetically KDE drives me crazy for some reason starting with the complete lack of standardisation on padding and going down hill from there.

Well, as someone who recently switched from Cinnamon to Gnome:

- There's no hibernate button. You can hibernate... by running "sudo pm-hinernate" on terminal.

- There's no session save, like, really.

- pm-hibernate sometimes fails without a single error message. Turns out it would refuse to run when the kernel was updated, OK fine that makes sense, except that the error message is redirected to /var/log/something and hidden beneath hundreds of lines of noise.

The only nice thing about it is that fractional scaling mostly works, which is nice, because I happen to have one 1080 and one 4K monitor. I'm sorely tempted to move to KDE but then I couldn't figure out how to make fractional scaling work there.

It's a total mess.

Since the author mentions Cinnamon and Gnome, I'd expect GTK land to be more susceptible (so I'd expect to perhaps run into similar issues with other GTK-based DE's).

Note how starting from Plasma 5, KDE doesn't officially come with a screen saver installed anymore, and only has a screen locking mechanism (kscreenlocker, which isn't exempt from its own share of bugs BTW).