How to do a "family home computer" these days?

Sun Wukong said
For most people this is true because they do nothing but use them for social media or a few other apps. But the VCR comparison doesn't work because there are entire career paths out there thst still very much use computers to do things phones can't do, and Gen Z is wildly tech illiterate due to being raised on smart phones and tablets which require no real understanding to run. Giving kids access to a real computer is important. It promotes actual tech literacy.

Anything in engineering or construction will be done on "real" computers for a very long time. And yes our new hires sometimes struggle with using them, especially "legacy" software like Autocad and Revit which seem to have a permanent foothold in the profession despite being extremely flawed- but they are the "industry standard" and every contract ever will require them for the foreseeable future. I can only assume that most professions have their own version of this. It's pretty much a whole different world than the intuitive touch pad voice controlled world that gen Z grew up in. Dealing with those sheetty computers in the 90's built character I tell ya.

I got a Geekom mini-desktop at home. Its basically just a hub with all the specs you would expect out of an actual desktop. I currently have 2 monitors, keyboard/mouse and a camera/speaker/mic combo plugged into it. Depending on what kind of monitors you get it could be relatively portable.