Im sorry you feel that way. I never said I was giving up on Linux and I didn't mean to come off as self righteous. I was just giving an objective example of what a new Linux user would come up against. I wrote it out of frustration because with how much fit and polish Linux (even Mint, even though I know you guys hate it lol) has gotten in the last few years. I would think that little things like this would be fixed by now. A huge part of the blame falls on Nvidia, especially for the removing the settings for aspect ratios.
The problem is that one users experience out of millions of users is hardly objective and the issues you experienced are encountered under any OS from time to time - Right now I can't mount any drive under macOS High Sierra that isn't NTFS (which I can't write to via GUI under macOS), FAT32 (and we all know how limiting that is) or HFS+. The problem is that High Sierra's disk manager won't format the drive to HFS+, NTFS or FAT32 and the OS will not see an ExFAT formatted partition. Luckily I can format to HFS+ under Linux by adding hfstools.
I'd never dream of posting on a public forum that my experience is the experience everyone is going to encounter under macOS High Sierra and claim to be objective.
Nothing gets fixed under Mint, it's still got the same compositor issues with Nvidia hardware that it's had since version 15 and I have encountered issues with Mint in the past where certain Nvidia X server Settings are missing that are definitely present under every other distro. I have never seen a setting under the Nvidia X Server Settings relating to aspect ratio's as the aspect ratio is solely determined by the resolution set under Nvidia X Server Settings. Such functionality should be present in the games video settings?