HCL - Laptop - ASUS VivoBook Pro N752VX-GC164T (i7-6700HQ)

Update with Qubes 4.3.0
This laptop is not anymore compatible with Qubes.
The install runs fine but it will freeze at first boot.

The reason is the following : The laptop is not anymore compatible with the Linux kernel since around version 4.12.xxx. And since Qubes 4.3.0, dom0 is based on “Debian + Linux 4.12”.
For standard Linux distributions it can still boot with the grub “nolapic” option or in safe mode, but that is not relevant to Qubes because “nolapic” deactivates multi-processing, and so the laptop would not satisfy the minimum hardware requirements.

(Side note : With Windows 11, all is running fine, there is no sign of any hardware problem)

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