<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Filip Svendsen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid4f4f44df0601030912l8bd9561j1dfaf4ff4033ec68@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> You'll more than likely find that this problem is due to the Gnome desktop, rather than Ubuntu itself - that's what I found. You might like to try some of the other desktops/window managers such as KDE, XFCE, etc. Personally, I just stuck another 256MB RAM in my system, because I like Gnome. That fixed the sluggish performance for me. Tim </body> </html>