👋 Hi, I'm Ezra Snow, usually "EJSnow" online. I enjoy gaming, programming, and messing with Linux. This site was written entirely on Arch btw. I'm currently daily-driving Arch Linux, coming from Windows (though not directly, I explored several other Linux distros before landing on Arch). I'm also hopelessly nostalgic for Windows 7 (this site is evidence of that lol).
My main PC (View project):
I'm Ezra Snow, a nerdy (extremely) 17 year old guy who may be addicted to computers and Linux (I spend far too much time using and messing with Linux on my computer). I currently live in North Carolina, and I'm a senior in high school. After I graduate, I'm going to study computer science at LeTourneau University. When I'm not doing school or messing with Linux, I'm often playing video games.
Games I like (in this order):
I'm also getting interested in running a home server, but I'm kind of limited with what I can do right now, since I don't have a web domain. What I really want to do is set up a NAS so I can access files more conveniently from multiple devices. And perhaps a media server. There's a lot I could do with a server. But that's a distant dream right now. *sigh* Maybe someday. Although I've already been messing around with some stuff on my main PC.
Fun fact: I wrote parts of this section on my phone by ssh-ing into my PC. Termux is wonderful (The vast majority was written either on my PC or my laptop though).
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My main PC, that I use for gaming, some web development, and pretty much everything else that isn't schoolwork (including Windows nostalgia). I built it over a year ago and it's worked really well, despite its age. It was originally a lowly office computer (a Dell OptiPlex 7020 SFF), but then I got my hands on it and forced it to game, upgrading most of the hardware to bring it up to gaming specs. Among the upgrades was a TP-Link Archer TX55E Wi-Fi card, since it only had Ethernet to begin with and I can't conveniently use Ethernet, plus I also wanted Bluetooth.
Specs (original → upgraded):
Items in bold are considered to be significant upgrades.
A Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5-15IIL05 laptop I got for free in August 2025. The main reason I got it was because the keyboard was half-dead, but it just needed to be cleaned. It works great now, although not for gaming. I use it for sometimes school and general messing around when I don't want to sit down at my PC. It's kind of insane for a free laptop. The battery is even still pretty good.
Specs:
This laptop has been in my family for a long time, and from 2022-2024 it was the kids' laptop (but mostly mine). It was originally my mom's, but for various reasons (mostly its age and the fact that it had a hard drive bottlenecking the crap out of it) she got a new computer, and this laptop came to me. Technically, it was only for school, but it was also my introduction to computers, Windows, PC gaming (despite the fact that it can't play very many games), and I even started playing around with Linux on it towards the end. I also put an SSD and more RAM in it. Before I started messing with Linux, I played around with Windows 7, first in a VM (which was horrendously slow), and then I set up a dual-boot with Windows 10. Windows 7 was actually really good on that laptop.
In October 2024 this laptop was retired after I built the Redstone Computer. However, it's still used as a Minecraft server, and it works surprisingly well for that, despite how slow it was as a PC. I guess it's because I'm running Linux on it (Windows is unacceptable for servers), and there's no desktop environment either (being a server, management is done through web dashboards or the terminal).
I mean the Minecraft server kinda died though so it's been shut down for a while. I don't want this to be a server forever so any server needs will probably be handled by either what's left of the Redstone Computer after I upgrade/replace it or a cheap mini PC, and then I'll turn this laptop into a Windows 7 nostalgia machine and hopefully give it back its original HDD.
Specs:
Cool stuff I've made. Check my GitHub profile for more!
Built Oct 5, 2024
My main PC, for gaming, development, and messing with Linux. It's an SFF Dell OptiPlex that's been heavily upgraded.
Nothing to see here... yet.
Documents I have here for future reference. Mainly guides for setting up Linux currently.
Last updated Jan 26, 2026
A guide to installing Arch Linux on a PC, but personalized. Based on the official installation guide and combining information from several other ArchWiki pages. Currently entirely complete. NOT a generic Arch install guide.