Beginner can someone answer a few questions?

[collin1]

Bro look, If you can, Try to get socks that have it's own DNS server.
If you dont find some than use a vpn as your first layer of security and then on top of that the socks. (This will protect you from leaking your own ip and instead leak the vpn's address)(Use proxifier for configuring your socks)
I recommend luxsocks.ru (It has a register fee of $500 but it's worth it) (If you really want some socks from that site than go to wall street market in the darkweb and buy socks from vendors there, They almost all use Luxsocks and socks from luxsocks cost like 0.30 - 0.35 cents of a dollar but if you dont have the $500 than use wall street market in the deep web and you can get each sock for like 3-5 dollars) If you have more questions post them here.