Alternatives to ubuntu?

[Paul den Hertog]

Will H. Backman wrote:

> 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.
>
>
You could try running a low performance windowmanager such as fluxbox
instead of gnome.

Paul