The axes make no sense for Pulp who are equally angry, sad, and horny.

Also not technically Pulp, but it turns out cunts are still running the world.

Fair enough, most of that isn’t something a user should have to worry about.

VT is just Virtual Terminals. You always have one of them active, and in most distros you can switch to others by Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F12. In some distos it’s just Alt-F1.

So if you press Ctrl-Alt-F2 you should be brought to a text login. For crazy historical reasons you may have to either press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your usual graphical session.

Arch docs for example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console

I would try:

• see if you can get logs of the resume process
• suspend from a text VT and see if that changes the behaviour
• boot into single user mode and try suspend from there
• boot an older LTS or a newer test kernel and see if it has the same problem