I've always had good luck with Dell stuff and still have a Dell XPS 17 from 2011 that runs great, but I did ditch the Win 7 OS that it came with in favor of Linux Mint 18.3 LTS.
This certainly is a platform filled with a lot of computer experience, but that could also yield too many opinions, so run whatever you are comfortable with.
Getting a fresh machine is always exiting! Greetings!