stockholm syndrome is a hell of a thing
At his age I had to scrounge together a PC outta scrap parts and hide it in the closet because I wasn’t allowed my own… I miss my P2
Kids these days
oh no 
But I must confess… my daughters are using also windows… because of yea the same gaming…
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yes exactly like that… kids are grown up with tablets and smartphones click touch install google store, saving all your photos on google drive new device ? automatically reinstalled all your apps… and all your files are still there back from the cloud … so they try to have the same on PC… they simply do not mind a penny about what OS is running …
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Eventually they will outgrow Windows and then want to go Linux gaming.
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I must say that my son having his own laptop is not much different from most of his peers.
These days he needs his own laptop to complete his assignments on time.
And when he had/has to isolate during the pandemic it is virtually mandatory.
That said we are in the fortunate position of being able to provide him with a laptop and a decent broadband connection.
He probably does feel deprived cause other than the laptop all he has is an aged xbox-360 and a mobile phone costing <= £200.
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He’s fourteen.
We didn’t have a computer, I had to ask my parents’ permission to use the one single phone in the house, and games? Here’s a stack of cards, or go outside. They did give me an Atari 2600 at some point but limited my playtime.
How did I ever survive…
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indeed, a whole bunch of his peers have Xbox X1’s and iPhones.
I’m a teenager here1; my phone being a hand me down. The only real good thing I have is a PC (since the oldest memory I have).
I did feel a bit out of place seeing most of my peers having access to more hardware and resources. But now that they’re complete Instagram/ Snapchat/ etc addicts, I can totally say I was blessed to not have a decent phone or network connection 5 years back.
That being said, I can confirm 110% that seeing your friends have more “resources” can make 14 year olds feel deprived 
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I’m very fortunate to have had access to a computer from earliest childhood. Even though we lived in a communist country and were dirt poor (we didn’t even have plumbing at home), my dad worked at a computer centre, so he took me to work to play on the big IBM mainframe (there were no games on it, but just typing into it was really novel and fun).
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Missile Command was my jam on the 2600, along with linkin logs and shoving the hose into the ground at max pressure to see where the water came out.
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IBM? In the glorious Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? You capitalist spies! 
Asteroids mate, Asteroids!
I guess that having access to American computers, together with Russian computers, was one of the benefits of being in the Non-Aligned Movement. Though I certainly would not describe it as glorious.
If we’re doing the “who was deprived” thing - I made it to fourteen before I was able to ‘influence’ the parental units to actually get a TV! I could only do that because we lived in England for a time, so the parents thought there were some good things on TV sometimes - there was no BBC2 in Canada at the time! Then it was even longer before I could watch an entire hockey game (they went past 10 o’clock).
On the other hand, in sheer self defense (of whatever sanity I had) I got VERY good at reading… just not always things they thought I should read…
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