I used to not give a shit about security, but now I want to completely

>>55550916
Get win 10 enterprise or education then

>>55550916
Kiwi door in pic?

>>55550982
>kia ora
yeah probably

>>55550916
So let's start at the front gate
Depending on how your ISP gives you your connection, you may or may not have a cable modem.

You should connect a firewall that drops all incoming connection, and allows all out-going connections. I can't recommend any good embedded firewalls because I haven't been in that market for a while. However if you have an extra computer laying around doing nothing that has two NICs. You could use PfSense/OPNSense for the firewall. Pretty easy to setup, and web-interface isn't that difficult to get used to.

Afterwards you can have a simple unmanaged switch distribute the connection out to Linux machines (and your >>>/v/ machine. Though if you really need to run Windows, pls no 10... Just use 7 and support Vulkan as opposed to DX12... Don't be cucked by M$.)

If you plan to run a server or two, it might be awesome if you have a managed switch, and a third NIC on that PfSense machine. As then you can VLAN the servers out, so that if they get pwned. Your whole network is not pwned.

>>55551000
I currently connect through a garbage router/modem combo i got from my ISP.

The windows machine is my gaming rig, but i use it also an an exercise in keeping myself up to date with windows.

>>55551069
If you need a replacement Modem. I'd look into the Arris Surfboard models.

>needs an excuse to keep up with wangblows
What, the windows 10 ads weren't enough to know windows 10 was a thing? If you mean updates, you can allow windows 7 to auto-update - the windows 10 updates.