I too have an Acer Inspire less than a year old with similar spec. I junked Winblows and it is now on Linux Mint 20.2 -- no problems with the original installation of Mint 20.0 nor the successive upgrades to 20.1 and 20.2 (think Service Packs in M$ terms (do they still do that?)) -- at about 15 minutes each.
I reckon it will be less than three years (two maybe) before I fill the keyboard with orange juice (most recent f-up, there have been other fluids) and need a new laptop so I treat it as an indoor lapdog and take it outside and off-mains every month to give its battery a bit of a discharge. Should be OK in theory.
Having sworn off HP after being a good business and personal customer for many years, and recently Dell too, I find the Acer good value for money. If it lasts me at home for three years that will be a 300% improvement on the average life of a business laptop IME.
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