I've been testing the Sabayon Mate 20140115 x86_64 daily. I needed to recover my ability to boot Linux after the Windows 8.1 upgrade on my laptop somehow made all my Linux boot options disappear.
I made an UEFI install to this laptop, and didn't encounter any problems except for the lack of gparted. Dual booting in UEFI mode with Windows 8.1 and Sabayon Mate is working fine. I would recommend gparted be added to the Sabayon Mate edition. There were only two small dependency issues (hfsutils and some other minor package), so there were no Gnome or KDE dependency bombs. I also made an install to one of my Desktop boxes (Dell Optiplex 745). In particular I wanted to test the new version of btrfs-progs. I had no issues installing to a partition previously formated for btrfs (which used to cause problems in an unpatched version of the old btrfs-progs). I only had two minor problems. I may have inadvertently caused both problems, but I haven't tracked down the causes yet. First, the resolution of the installed version was very low. The live session worked fine in detecting and configuring my i915 intel video card and monitor. But something didn't work right on the installed version with respect to monitor resolution. Second, I ran into some minor issues trying to restart light_dm. It wasn't responding to '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. But all in all, this Sabayon Mate edition was working well. Regards, Mitch.
