Is this good for a first laptop?
Maybe?
Anyone who can answer that question will want more information before doing so.
Is this good for Grandma, who just wants to Facebook and exchange recipes with her “can’t boil water” with her good-for-nothing daughters in law? No. It’s overkill, and it still isn’t a big enough screen for her.
Is it good for a 14 year old who’s hoping to move from console games to PC games? Maybe for a while. (It’s worth noting that gaming laptops are notoriously bad for gaming, due to the heat their processors and video chips throw off when they’re really working.)
This laptop has great specs for the price. However, the AMD ryzen chip will underperform in most demanding games, and the laptop itself will need a stand/lap desk that has enormous fans to pull heat out of it.
Proceed with caution.