Truesong Tech: "I recently set up Arch Linux (which is awesome, by the way) on my laptop, and noticed a bit of a problem... despite my resolution, 1680x1050, which usually makes fonts look tiny, all of my system fonts were huge."
If you've installed regular Ubuntu or Kubuntu, try downloading the Xubuntu-desktop package with apt-get. It's really lightweight, and you might find that things run a lot smoother.
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