Options from $200-$1000+, with good options around $400 on sale.
Issues? Power wash it.
Really broken? Go buy another one.
Lost or stolen? Buy another one and log in.
Need office? Google’s products work well. Need more? O365 subscription.
Want more security? Two factor auth with a Yubikey.
I recognize that this relies on Google and Microsoft and is not FOSS and has privacy issues and everything else. But I do not have enough time to spend managing my extended family’s IT beyond giving them chromebooks that achieve 99% of what they need to do with very little input on my part. If they want to invest time in learning about Linux and get away from Google and MSFT, that’s fine, but they can do it on their own time with a test machine and keep Chrome OS as their daily driver until they are confident on their own.