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Personally, contrary to most of the advice on here, I'd probably give up on it.
I've got a few old laptops running linux and they're fine but not great. Reasonable enough for web browsing and the like but often have a few annoying issues (some software/website that's required doesn't work, some missing driver, etc). I'd keep it if it was just a for a bit of light web browsing but not for work as well.
On top of that, MS Office is still by far the industry leader. I'd only contemplate using google docs, Libre Office, etc if the only documents I'm working on were entirely mine from start to finish. Attempting to use MS Office files nearly always throws up some formatting issues, formula incompatibilities, macro issues, etc. If you're using it for work then life is just too short for pissing around like that.
The Dell Outlet store is good (there's often discounts on there too) but personally, unless battery life was important, I'd look at something second hand. Something like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-X250-Core-i5-5200U-8GB-Ram-240GB-SSD-Windows-10-Webcam-Laptop/233240665373 or this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-Yoga-12-Core-i5-5300U-8GB-Ram-180GB-SSD-Touchscreen-Laptop/323833487962 would outperform a budget laptop twice the price. I've used that ebay seller a fair few times and they're reliable.