A happy new year to you. I hope that the negativity goes away again at some time and that the fighting will end. I have tried myself to set up piston on my MacBook Air, but for some reason it has not worked. I have a little Raspberry Pi lying around here, which my 9year old got for Christmas - I will try it again in a Linux environment. Good luck with your coding experiences and hopefully it helps to appease things at some point.