My laptop is an Acer Aspire-V3-572g, and apparently this issue affects other distros as well. In fact, I got the fix from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop/Acer in the first place.
As for the issue: everything about Linux Mint has been perfect on my laptop, with the exception of the suspend feature. Installing proprietary Nvidia drivers caused waking the system from suspend to give an error about "the GPU has fallen off the bus", followed by a complete failure of the display. It seems impossible to get to a terminal from this point, though the system appears to remain operational. Each time I recived this error, I had to hold down the power button and do a hard reset.
The fix is to add the following arguments to the kernel boot parameters:
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rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2009'
To make the fix permanent you need to edit the \etc\default\grub file. Open a terminal window and paste the following command:
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sudo xed /etc/default/grub
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2009'"