Writing something up on the UEFI now. I am not really sure what the overall benefits of UEFI are, will probably need John Raff to explain that but I know that the Semplice guys have a UEFI boot tutorial and I had moderate success using it. The problem with their process is that if you have a legacy/UEFI bios like mine the bios doesn't recognize the UEFI partition automatically. In the end I found it much easier to go through my steps.
Thanks for explaining something I didn't mention. I did use smxi to update to it's latest kernel, which of course (now I know) borked my grub by putting me back to the latest stable kernel. I just reinstalled and forgot about it. Now at least I understand what happened. Good info. Also thanks for giving me some insight on the way the releases work. The term "rolling release" has been co-opted by so many distro's with many of them taking liberties with how the term is used. I believe that your interpretation is the correct one, glad to hear this is a "true" rolling release.
FWIW I keep pretty extensive notes on what I do after each install and it is interesting to look back. I started with Mandrake and that is about 10 pages, Ubuntu was about the same. Debian Sid was also pretty extensive by it's nature. Aptosid required a lot for me because I am an openbox/spacefm/geany user. Crunchbang was the shortest prior to this but still required quite a bit of tweaking. For Vsido, barely a page. A few things are unavoidable but for the most part it's all here to begin with Conky, smxi, udevil etc. All I added was Gnucash, some yad tweaks I use, printers, java7, bluetooth drivers, changed the sound to hdmi, calibre, avidemux, some mac libraries, set up my vpn, sqlite, the spacefm plugins and then drug over my openbox, bash, tint2, cron scripts and a theme I like and I was done. In my world that is pretty awesome.
Thanks for the warm welcome, its great to have a "here" to come to. I am a bit of a lurker but if I feel I can contribute something of value to I will chime in. It seems you have some knowledgeable folks here so I am sure I will learn some things as I read my way through the forums. Really appreciate all your hard work, it shows in the release from top to bottom.