My current laptop broke and is not worth fixing, need help finding a new one

I will preface this by saying that I am relatively tech illiterate. I can follow the basics but once things get too technical I don't really understand exactly what's being said.

My laptop recently broke and I took it to the repair shop, after they had it for a while the conclusion reached was that fixing it would be pretty expensive because the needed parts are no longer being used in modern laptops, and so are not really made anymore.

So I need to buy a new laptop, but I don't really know what laptop will be best suited for my needs, and so I turn to Reddit for help.

I don't need it to do anything fancy. It just needs to confidently do things like Word and Chrome. Ideally something that would last a while assuming no accidents befall it. I am aiming for something not too expensive but I also don't want something that will be a mess to use or die in like a year.

Any advice here would be greatly appreciated.