Published Oct 30, 2026, 1:31 PM EDT

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.

Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals.

For as long as Linux has been my main desktop, my boot menu has had a second entry that existed mostly for Adobe. If I need to work with a .psd template, edit some product shots for a review, or cut a quick video, I'm almost exclusively doing it in Windows because that's where the Adobe tools I pay for are.…