10 Reasons Why I Love Sabayon Linux

I’ve been with Sabayon Linux for over a week now and it has already made it to my top Linux distribution list. Its speed and convenience is unparalleled by most of the mainstream Linux distributions. And besides Gentoo I have never seen a Linux distribution with such a large and complete collection of software in its repositories. But enough of my ranting and raving; let’s get on to the reasons why I love this Linux distribution more than the rest:

You can copy it over directly to a USB drive, no unetbootin required (dd if=sabayon.iso of=/dev/sdb). It’s rolling release, so only one installation is required for packages to stay up to date. It’s bleeding edge, with a 4 month release cycle (which makes it even more bleeding edge than Fedora or Ubuntu). It comes with a lot of the software I use by default (Google Chromium, Gnome Tweak Tool, Gimp, LibreOffice, Flash, multimedia codecs, etc.). It’s incredibly stable for a bleeding edge distribution. Gnome Shell has not frozen on me once, and has only restarted once. It comes with any major desktop environment you want. It has TONS of software in its repositories. It takes the best from Yum, Apt, and Portage and combines them in to one super smart package management system. It’s faster than most mainstream distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, etc.) Small, friendly, helpful forums that don’t treat new users like they’re idiots. So there you have it. My ten reasons why I prefer Sabayon Linux to all the other distributions. I hope you learned something new about this small distribution and maybe even decide to give it a trial run.

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