Me: Using 11 year old PC. Originally rjnning Windows 7. Now running ZorinOS.

I don’t particularly like linux, but…

looks at Windows 10…11…now 12…

Yeah, fuck that dumpster fire.

As long as you are not blasting away on random sites downloading every link you see then you are pretty safe. The old days of a hacker getting into your PC because you forgot to update your firewall are kind of gone.

Wrong on a ton of levels.

You can get infected by drive-by malware. It’s actually quite common. Zero interaction required on your part.

Running an outdated operating system or software like a browser makes you even more susceptible to this

I’ve had a Win 7 running for 12 years as a media server, never once been hacked.

ISPs and even old school Win 7 to Win 10 OSs have the old ports blocked by default that prevent “drive-by malware”.

What you are talking about is the equivalent of a Boogeyman that only exists because people are stupid about what they open up or install or allow to control their firewalls. Your points even prove that.