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Please for the love of god move off windows 7 to a secure OS like Linux or BSD
Windows 3.1 was what I cut my teeth on
Why not back up your win 7 installation and try a different Linux variant? Or even just fuck around with Linux in dual boot/vm before transitioning? I’d have to imagine that’d be preferable to either not using the internet or risking every device on the same network it’s connected to. I swear I read an article where fresh win10 installs were getting infected within minutes of connecting to the net. Let alone 7.
Raspberry pi is not going to be representative of running something like Linux Mint on an x86 machine. Raspberry pi is a unique piece of hardware that not all OSes are going to test against. As the other poster said, there are things you can do to ease yourself into the transition. But I'm... Baffled by your lackadaisical attitude towards updates. Your browser not being updated since before covid makes me hope to god you're not downloading any media files or logging into any websites
Is your computer networked? If so, that's a bad idea
I hope your firewall is up to scratch.
You're letting the internet bareback you.
Your PC could be part of a botnet that sends phishing mails, mine crypto and send all your keystrokes to Irkutsk, without you noticing.
I would hope they're protected by the router firewall