Published Oct 25, 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.

If you ask a Windows user to check their laptop's battery level from a command line, they'll probably use a PowerShell cmdlet or battery report. If you ask a Linux user to do the same thing, there's a good chance they'll just read it directly from a file. Basically everything on Linux is a file, and it comes from a design decision made at Bell Labs over 50 years ago.…