You can try to get Windows 7 but Windows 8 and 8.11 whatever it is has been out.
I still rather use  XP even if 32-bit, because they changed things around in Windows Vista and onwards.
No more volume changing in Windows, it is set by Windows OS, plus other Security features that have to be probably turned off, or else they are well, to me annoying.
 
Anything else might be found here:
http://lunaticoutpost.com/
or perhaps here if you eventually join:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/pg1
 
and probably it is best to avoid some of those websites.
Music-wise sometimes it has been compression and loudness and loudness Wars.
I am not into that, so a lot can be read here also on this forum
I am using an older version of Sonar that works in XP or Windows 7, that is all I know.
Whether I upgrade or not depends on the factors inherent in what is going on in this Country.
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Otherwise the Coffee House here is like perhaps Garbage in Garbage Out.
but not all the time.
We have our own families.
 
Correction:
I have my own family.
 
 

You can still use Windows XP and it will work as well as it ever did. The reason to go with new stuff is to get new features, not because old stuff will not work. Most contemporary computers will run XP, but if you are not going for the latest and greatest, the used computer market will still have a lot of machines that have not been trashed yet, and some will have XP installed , but since XP has reached end of service, it is best to find an installation CD, since you will more or less be responsible for your own maintenance. Windows 7 Professional comes with a license to install XP as a virtual machine, but a VM is generally not recommended for audio work. Some (maybe all) of your software may still run under windows 7 or 8. And of course the world of malware has advanced, so if you are using XP it might be best to install a good antivirus and/or avoid surfing the web.

I have xp pro on cd, and would install myself, and tweak it to death as so that everything I don't need is off in the bg. And I've never hooked a daw (do they still say daw?) up to the net.

I put my music up yesterday in the songs forum and it's already bumped to the next page wo comment, maybe I didn't know what I was doing and should just start from scratch 😝

Oh, this also is what is happening nowadays.
Feel free to make music about any of it.
Load up the Internet with Trillions of "Songs".
 
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/sections/food-recalls/
 
yep, can not understand why some people are fat either!@
 

I do remember you, your songs are still on page one.
 
Welcome back.

I'm sure that Bapu...Pono...The righteous one...The eternal...the all knowing...all seeing...will finally wake up from one of his (many) naps and deign to check out this thread and bestow on you the usual friendly open-armed welcome to the coffee house cult he usually does for newbs and prodigals like yor own self.  He's a swell egg.  And a dimbulb to boot. 
 
You still in Memmmmphus??

I was in Illinois and Oklahoma but yeah, back in memfrica now. I'm on a phone right now. It's strange. I'm still in 2007, but there is all this new stuff, and TVs are cheap, gas is expensive, and radio is dead. Odd.

There is a bunch of Internet Radio, except........................time!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Internet+Radio&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb
 
Don't know if that Search link will work since I am on Mozilla (Firefox).
 

I have pandora, I listen to it all the time for Spanish music, Banda, musica nortena, Cumbia... 😉

And since they track everything for whatever purpose, I use this usually and not.........any of the other search engines.
https://startpage.com/
 
And this:
https://www.ghostery.com/en/
 
They want to store enough info about anyone and anything.....................and well I little care.