Sabayon-unbelievably bad

In my quest to get a new OS up and running on my Compaq CQ60-210US laptop, I decided to give Sabayon Linux a shot. The LiveDVD worked flawlessly. Installed the OS without incident. Upon reboot, I got a screen stating that something did not install (or was configured) correctly. WTF? Didn't this all get figured out when the LiveDVD booted up? Didn't the configuration get saved to the hard disk upon install? The closest I could get was to a command prompt. Again, if this were a project where people were paid to do it, there would be some firing going on. On to Linux Mint 13 KDE edition.