<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Amazingly, I am still using Sabayon as my desktop after all this time. It has done more just-plain-working than any other desktop distro I've used. There have been blips, but the docs have been available every time.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I am convinced that this is because Sabayon's basis on Gentoo, a non-package-based distro, means that Sabayon is not dependent upon thousands of tiny package-teams which don't talk to each other very much. Gentoo developers <span style=" text-decoration: underline;">have</span> to talk to each other for anything to work very much, encouraging a more effective cooperation. At least that's current theory :-) The most remarkable thing to me is a non-commercial project working much better than so many commercial ones.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Sabayon does also have a security-updates-only method of sticking with current versions of things. And it has handled driver issues on one laptop (a 5-year-old Toshiba no less) and one desktop very well indeed.<br>
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