Alternatives to ubuntu?

Will H. Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Tue Jan 3 17:25:50 UTC 2006


Filip Svendsen wrote:
> I realize this is probably one of the worst possible places to ask
> this, but I'm looking for an alternative to Ubuntu. My problem is that
> the interface feels so incredibly sluggish. I'm not talking about
> startup times of apps, which really doesn't bother me at all; it's the
> responsiveness of apps after they've started. In particular firefox is
> incredibly slow, compared to under windows 2000.
> 
> I really don't want to go back to windows again, so I'm interested in
> if anybody knows how well gnome and firefox runs under for example
> gentoo?
> Are their other performance-minded distros out there?
> --
> Venlig hilsen
> Filip Svendsen
> 

Perhaps the question should be:  How do I troubleshoot performance 
problems in Ubuntu.





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