I would be confident that the hardware is just too new except that I finally succeeded in installing Ubuntu 20.04 Mate on the machine, and then installing the Nvidia drivers.
inxi -Fxz from the working Ubuntu install is as follows:
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System: Kernel: 5.11.0-34-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Console: tty 0 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-44 v: V1.04 serial: <filter>
Mobo: RO model: Stonic_RNS v: V1.04 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 02/04/2021
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 56.4 Wh condition: 56.4/57.5 Wh (98%) model: LGC AP18E8M status: Full
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 71867
Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1602 4: 1624 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397
8: 1397 9: 1382 10: 1397 11: 1391 12: 1397
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 bus ID: 01:00.0
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus ID: 05:00.0
Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa tty: 191x55
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: N/A bus ID: 05:00.5
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.6
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-34-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 10.10 GiB (0.9%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-256G-1014 size: 238.47 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM049-2GH172 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 680.09 GiB used: 10.04 GiB (1.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: nvidia screen: :0.0 temp: 38 C device: amdgpu temp: 37 C
Info: Processes: 348 Uptime: 4m Memory: 15.08 GiB used: 1.36 GiB (9.0%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0
Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38