Fwiw, my family has been perfectly happy with various Linux machines. Most things work with just a browser. Such that my kid's school just gives Chromebooks.

Fwiw, my family has been perfectly happy with various Linux machines. Most things work with just a browser. Such that my kid's school just gives Chromebooks. They prefer the Ubuntu and Pop os machines, but are fine with any. The windows machine was ok when we had it, but it did crash more. I only regret some content creation tools. Used to regret gaming, but steam has come a long way.