For those who still care, I did a full reinstall on my more powerful desktop ( i3-13100F, GTX1060, 32GByte RAM, 500 GByte HDD ) and I have been able to launch the game and load the Jita station interior. I tried to undock in a rookie ship, but i did not see the grid load until I was about 60km from the undock. I changed the client setting from on demand to full download and that seemed to help, but every time I jump a gate the client freezes. Somehow EVE Online in the new launher era is worse…
Normally I do have this on, I did a reinstall about a month ago due to GRUB corrupting and missed this setting. I’ll turn it back on and see how far I get now.