My daughter never had her own machine not because I couldn't get her one but because she was always on her handheld devices and it never came up.
Recently I noticed she was using her mothers more and more when it wasn't being used so I had a thought.
"Do you want this older laptop I have?" I asked her and she got all excited.
So I needed to get a new power brick for it because it didn't have one and the plug on the machine itself was different than any spare on I had laying around (this is the reason it was given to me since the owner didn't need it anyway yet they gave me the better one out of the 2 they had actually).
And it only had 1.5gb of ram.
Shitty windows vista was on it and there is not much of a chance of it running windows 10 or 7 all that well with that little ram in my opinion.
Come to find out it has a 64bit cpu and could take up to 4gb of ddr2.
So in the end I spent less than $100 on ram and the power brick installed Debian on it, spent a few days making sure it all worked well and customized the UI for her so it looked all girly.
Now she acts like I bought her a brand new machine and is in love with it.
If not for Debian(actually Linux in general) being open source and free she would have ended up with a 15 year old OS that worked like crap even when it was new with no support or security updates.
Made me love Linux and Debian specifically even more and made my kid smile what more could I ask for?
[edited for spelling mistakes]