Not sure if I should be posting here since it isn't for gaming, but after spending the last year reading this thread I'd love your input, Setsul. This is my first time putting a build together from scratch.

I'm putting this together for my grandparents. They'll be using it for very basic old people tasks. 99% of what they need it for is office and Youtube. No games, no movie editing, just... basic. If possible, I'd also like it to remain snappy even after they inevitably install a few toolbars and junk; at least until I can come clear shit out for them. I put together a quick part list.

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($47.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC - Alpine 11 GT Rev. 2 28.6 CFM CPU Cooler ($5.69 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($36.59 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.89 @ OutletPC)
Software: Microsoft - Office Home and Student 2016 Software ($94.99 @ Amazon)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte - GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter ($34.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $519.10

Really, I'd just like to know if there's anywhere I'm underspending, or (more importantly :) ) if there's anywhere I'm actually spending too much.

As a side note, I do have some spare DDR3 RAM lying around, as well as some laptop-sized wifi cards. Would it be worth trying to put together a build with a different mobo in order to save on those parts? Will there be a difference in speed between DDR3 and DDR4 if the clock speeds are the same?

Another newbie question: I pulled the CD drive out of an old laptop, and I'm having trouble figuring out whether it'd be compatible with the case I chose. Any advice?

i swear to god if this is working as intended im gonna send a VERY harshly worded letter to mr newell himself

www.strawpoll.me/14474217

only works with linux servers :(

I spent 4 years playing casually, getting excited when my team would actually spread out over every class in pubs, before finally wondering if there was a game mode that mandated every class be played. Then I spent another few months playing HL lobbies before looking into what the heck those 6v6 lobbies were. Then there were another few months I spent thinking 6v6 was dumb as hell since everyone I met while trying to play it were toxic idiots. Once I finally decided to join a team I wound up finding a really chill 6s squad, and that was that.

If you mean that some of your games don't work, then yeah, you shoulda known that going in. Linix users are a pretty small portion of PC users, devs often don't bother.

If you mean like your mouse and keyboard don't work, you probably did something wrong tbh. Drivers exist for just about everything out there. Did you uncheck "install 3rd party drivers" during install?

Sounds right to me.

Cant help you on the mouse. I wasn't joking when I said I did my first install last week, and that was for someone else's computer. So yeah, I'm pretty much out of useful linux tips now. Godspeed.

Even though I agree that a promod isn't necessary, I also don't think it'll work as a last-resort type deal. Last resort means either that Valve has completely abandoned TF2, or that the comp scene is otherwise very close to death. Either way, I don't see how or why anyone left at that point would want to dedicate their time to a promod. I don't think the game is anywhere near broken enough to need it, but for the people who do want to play a promod, the time is now. The longer you wait, the smaller the pool of people who will want to play gets. By the time a promod is the only option, it will probably be way too late to play it that way.

i installed ubuntu for the first time last week so im definitely an expert

step one: assuming you want to dual boot windows and linux, repartition ur hard drive so ur windows partition doesnt take up the whole disk. otherwise you can just format the whole drive, ezpz
step two: insert usb/cd with linux image, go into bios settings to boot that drive before ur usual disk. from there, grub should present you with options to install linux or try it without installing. doesnt really matter which you choose, you can proceed with install either way. choosing to install right away removes the part where you have to double click on the "install linux" option
step 3: wait. also, wait a few minutes after it says its done; when i did it there was a weird bug where grub (a boot loader which will let you load windows or linux) didnt get installed. i wound up having to format the partition where linux was installed and redo the whole thing

then you reboot and done.

I dunno, that seems doable.

Whatever happened to the newbie mix drive? I heard that newbie mixes were back but I never saw the team drive happen. Do they need volunteers?

all is right with the world

how the hell did u find this weird ass cp_orange frag at 5:10

Worth noting that this definitely wasn't the fix for my particular problem. I had that in there as part of the comfig.

I just added the line "exec autoexec.cfg" to each class config after my last post. After playing for about an hour and two restarts, it looks like that's gonna work.

Both.

Weird little thing I just found, if I exec autoexec once I'm already on a server, the script works fine. If I do it while sitting in the main menu, things get unbound. I tried deleting all my class configs and that didn't change anything. I've just put exec autoexec in all my class configs and it should work out fine.

Commenting out the comfig didn't work. I promise, it is specifically the script being used. When I include the script everything is unbound. If I lose the script, and add

bind "w" "+forward"
bind "a" "+moveleft"
bind "s" "+back"
bind "d" "+moveright"

The keys are bound appropriately.

If I include just the script, they are unbound.

If I include both, they are unbound.