Published May 11, 2026, 2:30 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. Death, taxes, and Windows versus Linux arguments on the internet. It's something that will never end, and each camp has valid points: Windows for software compatibility, gaming, and out-of-the-box hardware support; Linux for performance, stability, and the freedom to actually own your machine. The lines were clear, and so were the trade-offs. But in the last few years, there's been a shift.…