The whonix documentation ought to be part of the darknet bible as well. It is a fantastic crash course in infosec overall and everyone can benefit from starting to use Qubes with Whonix. Tails should really only be used if not storing stuff to disk is absolutely necessary because Qubes comes with full disk encryption by default. With the recent javascript mess people should really seriously consider starting to use Qubes with Whonix.
You can run the sys vm and net vm in PV mode instead of the PVH virtualization mode so that you do not have to have special hardware to run Qubes.