Published Oct 27, 2026, 1:30 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.

Among people who haven't used it, Linux has a reputation that precedes it. It's known as an operating system that doesn't work with the applications they want to use, has to be constantly updated, and treated with gloved hands at all times.…