…and I have to go with Linux Mint.
Sabayon looks very impressive, but much like Gentoo, it seems you still need to be willing to roll up your sleeves and spend some time neck deep in bash and config files to get it running at full capacity.
I don’t mind that… in fact, even on Ubuntu I usually wind up editing xorg.conf by hand at least once. But in my old age, I’ve found that I really want things to “just work,” and that I don’t really want to stay up until 3 in the morning tweaking nVidia drivers so I can get xorg working again.
So, Linux Mint tops the charts right now, in my opinion. It is basically the latest greatest version of Ubuntu, plus (in the full “imagine there’s no software patents” version) added drivers and codecs that make your first boot a real treat… everything just works. Even Beryl, right out of the box (if it came in a box).
