# Sabayon Reviews **Vendor:** Sabayon **Category:** [Operating Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Sabayon Sabayon Linux provides a flexible and extendible Gentoo based operating system, designed for ease of use with access to advanced features, Sabayon aims to provide a bleeding edge OOTB desktop experience using the KISS approach. ## Sabayon Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **rich app ecosystem** of Sabayon, which includes many pre-installed applications for convenience. (2 reviews) - Users find Sabayon to be **user-friendly** , making it accessible for beginners with pre-installed applications. (2 reviews) - Users find Sabayon to be **user-friendly** , making it accessible and enjoyable for beginners with pre-installed applications. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **hardware compatibility** of Sabayon, benefiting from its smooth operation across various devices. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **reliability** of Sabayon, ensuring a fast and smooth experience across various hardware setups. (1 reviews) - Users value the **fast and reliable performance** of Sabayon, enhancing their overall computing experience. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **slow updates** of Sabayon frustrating compared to other distributions, affecting their overall experience. (1 reviews) - Users find the **slow update frequency** of Sabayon troubling compared to other Linux distributions, impacting their experience. (1 reviews) - Users find Sabayon's **usage difficulty** challenging due to its complex package management and unreliable live CD experience. (1 reviews) ## Sabayon Reviews ### 1. SABAYON PRINCIPALS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeffrey K. | VICE PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2026 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** SABAYON IS USER-FRIENDLY AND IS DESIGNED TO BE EASY TO USE, EVEN FOR BEGINNERS, WITH MANY APPLICATIONS ALREADY INSTALLED. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** SABAYON USERS FIND THE UPDATE FREQUENCY LACKING AFFECTING OVERALL USABILITY AND FULLFILLMENT. **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** SABAYON USERS REPORT A SMOOTH AND FAST RUNNING EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS VERSATILE HARDWARE SUPPORT. ### 2. Navigating the Pros and Cons of Sabayon Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush P. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** Sabayon Linux is easy to use, even for beginners. It works well with different hardware and comes with many apps already installed, saving setup time. Plus, it’s fast and reliable, giving a smooth experience. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Sabayon Linux can be tough because its package management system is complicated and might confuse new users. It also doesn't get updates as quickly as other distributions. Plus, the live CD isn't as dependable as a full installation. **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sabayon Linux makes setup easy with pre-installed apps and good hardware support, saving time and effort. It's simple for beginners to use. Plus, it runs smoothly and reliably, improving the user experience. ### 3. Increase your computing experience with Sabayon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** An L. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** It allows me to perform a wide range of activities, from web browsing to media playback and programming to gaming. Also, it provides a vast collection of pre-installed applications that enable me to accomplish tasks without going through the tedious process of software installation. I enjoy this efficient Linux operating system. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** The setup process takes some time, but once it's done, it runs smoothly. Nothing is so complicated in Sabayon, and I am satisfied with using it. **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved my problem of manually installing software for regular office work; it had all the necessary software pre-installed, which saved me a lot of time and effort. ### 4. Great Operating System based on Gentoo!!! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** It allows me to perform a wide range of activities, especially for programming. Also, it provides a vast collection of pre-installed applications that enable me to accomplish tasks without going through the tedious process of software installation. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** - The setup process takes some time. - Its not a popular operating system **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides me a development enviroment, for example, for web develpment using PHP and MariaDB. ### 5. Review on Sabayon **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aswin K. | Business Support Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** Sabayon is very friendly UI is very attractive and provides better architecture to work on Linux environment.i agree that the OS is fairly fast and provides the expected output **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** I personally felt that the updates are minimum and compared to other operating systems this is little slow. The welcome screens in the start up is boaring and eats up time to start **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it for a project due to customer insision and learnt it much brefely. We completed the project without gaps and was very satisfied with the outcome. Yes the perfomance has been increased. ### 6. Best Gentoo-based Linux Distribution that is beginner-friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niranjan R. | Head of Marketing, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** Sabayon's beginner-friendly UI is very attractive and provides better hardware compatibility than most distributions. The OS is very fast, and crisp. Absolutely love the Verbose update tool. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Multiple welcome screens look very annoying. Further, the single partition for root and home are not a very welcome feature as multi- partitions are always a safer bet **Recommendations to others considering Sabayon:** If people like to try Linux for the first time, or they would like to experience Gentoo and waste no time compiling, Sabayon is a great start. Been using since ages now and has never failed my expectations **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sabayon for me, has helped compiling faster and would not have recognised that it is gentoo as the implementation of plasma is outstanding and IMO is a very good daily driver ### 7. Very useful for beginners **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** The tool is literally beginner-friendly, just like how they advertise. This makes it easy to get started with minimal to no experience. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** There could be a bit more functionalities and integrations. **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** An open-source distribution tool that can easily be introduced to beginners and trainees ### 8. Gentoo for everyone **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** It comes with pretty much everything you need for a solid desktop operating system out of the box. Entropy lets you use pre-built packages. However, if you want to install something not on repo, you can always compile from source with portage. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Because it is a lesser-known distro, there is not a lot of support out there. You will often find yourself relying on the general Gentoo forums to guide your way. **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted a Gentoo based distro that provided very good out of box support on various hardware, and Sabayon fails to disappoint. ### 9. Great Linux based self configured OS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ekesh B. | Module Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** It can run on minimal configuration also. Moreover, It really works 'out of the box. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Not for beginners, as installation itself requires source code compilation. Also, package management needs to be improved. **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1- Speed up the system, as I had a low configuration machine. ### 10. Linux gentoo always update **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Agustín G. | Tecnico Móviles Express Movistar, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** It is a very stable distro, which is gentoo very configurable. **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Not for beginners, package system can be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Sabayon:** gentoo power easily **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** So configurable that it works on very slow machines ### 11. A grea linux distro **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** The os is easy to used and clean for the first time user to understand . **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** The os is great and easy to understand but it has also the problems of the disto of every linkux distribution **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using the Sabyon for testing our dev environment ### 12. Sabayon is awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** I like the installation and the UX UI. Easy to work **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Not all the apps are available like windows **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** some clients want Linux based servers so it helps me to learn about this. ### 13. Very good OS but have some small issues **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** Sabayon is very simple and fast OS. Have very good optimization Its lightweight and secure **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Have small issues for example some application is crushed in my case also boot time is very long **Recommendations to others considering Sabayon:** I abolutely recommend this OS **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I using Sabayon for software development. I am fullstack web developer I coding in php postgres ### 14. Best OS! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Sabayon?** Beginner friendly Linux, easy to use. Better to use immediately **What do you dislike about Sabayon?** Nothing so far. Very easy to get started using **What problems is Sabayon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing yet. No problems. Realized couldn't use certain softwares on Linux though ## Sabayon Discussions - [Is Gentoo Linux dead?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-gentoo-linux-dead) - [What is Sabayon Linux based on?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sabayon-linux-based-on) - [Why Sabayon Linux?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-sabayon-linux) - [What happened to Sabayon?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-happened-to-sabayon) - [View Sabayon pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sabayon/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-21+15%3A44%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7c13a247-dd8a-490c-93ad-3b9ef29a6e02&secure%5Btoken%5D=049447300763e3c79a63aa63d5f13b976a20b25b763f4edab4b7e000f31473e1&format=llm_user) ## Sabayon Features **Memory Management - Operating System** - RAM management **Device Management - Operating System** - I/O management **Backup and Recovery - Operating System** - Data backup **Error Detection - Operating System** - System operations monitoring ## Top Sabayon Alternatives - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,330 reviews) - [Windows 11](https://www.g2.com/products/windows-11/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (4,073 reviews) - [Apple iOS](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-ios/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,517 reviews)