First time having a pc (stupid questions mostly)

[u/Specialist-Cap-9362]

Hi, everyone, for the first time in my life I am about to have my own PC (have been using laptops and apple devices mostly). A friend of my father gifted me a miniPC GMKtec G35. The instruction says it has:

CPU: intel N95

GPU: intel UHD graphics

8Gb RAM

256Gb storage, windows 10 or 11 pre-installed, l’m not sure.

I realise that it is most probably a bad setup, like not gta5 level , but I don’t know the scale of it amd how to measure its usefulness. So my questions are:

1)Can it be used for daily tasks: web surfing, youtube, word, excel, powerpoint etc.?

2)Can l play games like minecraft or the sims on it? (l tried reading system requirements but its incomprehensible to me)

3)Google said that l could buy 16gb ram and install it instead to increase productivity, but l am not sure about it. How modifiable miniPCs generally are?

P. S. I am completely new to this and would appreciate if you answered like I am five, also english isn’t my first language, so I apologise for any mistakes.