So has most everyone moved to Win 10 now?

AltTabbins said:
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.
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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?
 
Which distro would you recommend. I’ve heard things about manjaro. I wouldn’t mind something arch based.
 
AltTabbins said:
Which distro would you recommend. I’ve heard things about manjaro. I wouldn’t mind something arch based.
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If you're having trouble with Mint than you're going to have more trouble with anything Arch based. I recommend sticking to the *buntu distro's and perhaps trying something like Ubuntu Mate 16.04, stick to LTS, the devs of Ubuntu Mate seem to be on the ball when it comes to overall stability and an issue free experience.

I understand what you are trying to do, you are trying to play CS:GO at a 4:3 resolution on a 16:9 monitor. Bear in mind that such settings no longer give you any competitive advantage, but if you must do what you want to do it is entirely possible and not that complicated via a simple one line command utilizing viewportin and viewportout in terminal. I have not seen scaling options in Nvidia X Server settings for as long as I've been running Linux as effectively viewportin and viewportout do the same thing.

See here, pay attention to the last post:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=204531

Bear in mind that you will need to save your command using a text editor and copy/paste it into terminal before starting a game (which is far from difficult) or make a quick script that you can double click before starting a game. You can change settings in Nvidia X Server Settings, but they will stick and scale everything on the desktop.

I'm only too happy to help if you're willing to learn something new and let bygones be bygones in the event you fail. But I'm not really interested in my time being wasted just because someone wants to prove a point - I love helping people try something new and admittedly I have never tried what you're attempting to do, so it would be a learning curve for myself also.
 
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Mazzspeed said:
you are trying to play CS:GO at a 4:3 resolution on a 16:9 monitor.
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I’m actually trying to play 16:9 on a 21:9 monitor. It’s generally a lot easier since 2560x1440 has the same vertical resolution as 3440x1440. I’m not trying to play stretched either like a lot of players prefer, I’m just looking for a letter boxed 2560x1440 since that would be a 1:1 pixel ratio with black bars on the left and right. 3440x1440 is natively “supported” by Csgo but the score board and after game/mid match board breaks and I can’t see 1/3 of it. Thats a Csgo issue, not exclusive to Linux. In the Nvidia drivers on Windows, I can force resolutions to hold their native aspect ratio, I don’t know why they removed it from the Linux drivers.

I’m going to pass on the help. I’ll look to other sources.
 
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AltTabbins said:
I’m actually trying to play 16:9 on a 21:9 monitor. It’s generally a lot easier since 3440x1440 can fit 2560x1440 inside the panel size nicely. I’m not trying to play stretched either like a lot of players prefer, I’m just looking for a letter boxed 2560x1440 since that would be a 1:1 pixel ratio with black bars on the left and right. 3440x1440 is natively “supported” by Csgo but the score board and after game/mid match board breaks and I can’t see 1/3 of it. Thats a Csgo issue, not exclusive to Linux. In the Nvidia drivers on Windows, I can force resolutions to hold their native aspect ratio, I don’t know why they removed it from the Linux drivers.

I’m going to pass on the help. I’ll look to other sources.
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Fair enough, just bear in mind that even without scaling options what you want to do is entirely possible under Linux - Which says something for the flexability of the OS, as without scaling options under Windows in the Nvidia drivers you'd be stuck with no options whatsoever.

Trying to publicly make use of an OS just to prove a point is an exercise in futility as one disadvantage of a certain OS may yield numerous advantages in other areas and not only does everyone not use their PC the same way, every PC is configured differently. I'm really not interested in an immature 'us vs them' mentality.
 
Mazzspeed said:
Trying to publicly make use of an OS just to prove a point is an exercise in futility as one disadvantage of a certain OS may yield numerous advantages in other areas and not only does everyone not use their PC the same way, every PC is configured differently. I'm really not interested in an immature 'us vs them' mentality.
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It never was this. It was just an example of the kind of thing that would discourage Linux use for someone new. If it’s working without any extra work of steps on Windows, it’s hard to convince people who are on the fence and are exploring alternatives out of the Microsoft OS ecosystem. I wish it was a little cleaner and simpler but still appreciate how far the experience as a whole has been improved over the last few years. That’s the only point I was trying to make.
 
AltTabbins said:
It never was this. It was just an example of the kind of thing that would discourage Linux use for someone new. If it’s working without any extra work of steps on Windows, it’s hard to convince people who are on the fence and are exploring alternatives out of the Microsoft OS ecosystem. I wish it was a little cleaner and simpler but still appreciate how far the experience as a whole has been improved over the last few years. That’s the only point I was trying to make.
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It doesn't work like that.

As stated, everyone's experience with anything as complicated as an OS on a magnitude of varying configurations and personal needs is going to vary wildly no matter what the OS in question and quite often what you experience may not be observed by another user. You stated you were trying to prove a point and no matter what your intentions the second you make such a claim you create an us vs them mentality which degrades the discussion.

While I'm by no means blaming the user, it's obvious your experience with Linux is minimal in comparison to your experience with Windows - You're learning something new and issues are going to be encountered in such scenarios, the idea is to see if you can deal with them as best you can considering any other benefits the change in operating system may offer. In time you may find that what you thought was an issue really wasn't that much of an issue at all and you may wonder why you stuck with the OS you were so comfortable with considering it's many issues for so long.

If you decide to pursue Linux, my advice is to leave any preconceived idea that Linux is a copy of Windows at the door and explore your newly discovered alternative with the wonder and enthusiasm you had when you first started using Windows. Yes, at times you will get frustrated, but think of the bigger picture and never stop learning - I personally find all operating systems fascinating!

Everything has it's pro's and con's, but don't limit yourself to just one ecosystem for the sake of comfort. However, at the end of the day, the decision's entirely yours and I respect that. :)
 
AltTabbins said:
Which distro would you recommend. I’ve heard things about manjaro. I wouldn’t mind something arch based.
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Xubuntu

or Lubuntu for older machines.

I run Xubuntu on my Desktop and better notebook, and Lubuntu on the Atom N270/1GB RAM netbook.
 
Mazzspeed said:
In time you may find that what you thought was an issue really wasn't that much of an issue at all and you may wonder why you stuck with the OS you were so comfortable with considering it's many issues for so long.
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It's not so much a matter of comfort but people being able to the things they want and need from their devices.
 
There's no point in a person using a computing device or anything else if it can't do what one wants or needs.
 
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