I am still testing distros for my optimum home laptop setup. Only sabayon awesome has a clean slate feeling that i craved initially so i thought i would try it for a bit longer....Graphical install requires username and password...on brief googling on one page i came across (
http://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2921) very old bug report but the username in it did not work ... as i downloaded the latest iso, this should be updated and information should really in the wiki.
test install does give me cli interface but the startx command does work. There is a wiki on awesome and its usage but not a good newbie guide / first use guide that i have come across...
irc channel is still scary for me...googling though... i want to pick have a distro for use (not for tinkering_) by end of the weekend...