Like you, I've spent 50 years working with many different types of computers from mainframes to micro computers. You gave very good advice, my wife uses an iPad but I started using a Chromebook 10 years ago and find it the perfect PC for my needs. I have spreadsheets and documents and even a few slides (powerpoint type documents). I love that you can't get a virus and everything is automatically backed up to the cloud (15GB free). I do all my banking and surfing on it and feel safe. Updates are automatic and mostly invisible (they are downloaded in the background and when you turn the Chromebook off then on you have the new updates).
I do have a couple of old laptops that were running Windows 7 and didn't want to go to 10, so I found out about Linux and upgraded them to Linux Mint 19.3. I have converted over a dozen people to Linux and none want to go back to Windows. Like the Chromebook you don't have to worry about getting a virus, why? you may ask, it's because the way the operating system is designed. While it's not impossible to get a virus, it is very, very, very rare and mostly aimed at the big corporations.
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