System freeze (kernel panic) with 6.10+ when external monitor is connected

With such a diverse range of hardware in the wild it’s often the luck of the draw with kernels. 6.9 is soon reaching EOL (or, maybe it has already) no matter how flawlessly it works for you, so finding another comfortable fallback is probably a good idea.

As I understand it, kernel 6.12 (LTS) is expected to be available sometime in November; so that looks promising.