slowness

Britten · 11-26-2005, 03:31 PM

ok i have ubuntu installed and seems to be working great... i really like this distro so far....

the one problem i am having right now.... is that when i am browsing the web (using firefox) it seems rather slow at rendering pages compaired to using I.E. in Win XP... any ideas? should i use mozilla instead?

oh one more thing... what is this GUI that it uses as default?

fouldsy · 11-26-2005, 03:57 PM

For your browsing, check with another browser to see if it's Mozilla / Firefox - if so, maybe read through this http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=258042

As for the default window manager, Ubuntu uses Gnome. You can install KDE if you wish through the repositories, or a side-arm is Kubuntu, which installs Ubuntu but with KDE as default

Britten · 11-26-2005, 04:03 PM

to use kubuntu..... do i have to reinstall the whole OS??

it seems to have picked up after i made the disable ipv6 true in the config and restarted firefox

angkor · 11-27-2005, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Britten
to use kubuntu..... do i have to reinstall the whole OS??

Nah, you can just

Code:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

(or use Synaptic to install the kubuntu-desktop package)

log out and choose KDE from the login screen.