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I'm using an Acer Aspire One Net Book and I have Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu dual booted.

  • Processor: 1.66 Ghz
  • 1 GB Ram
  • Intel Atom
  • 64 bit

I noticed that in Ubuntu, web sites don't display well. While Windows 7 does it just fine. This happens in all browsers. I have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed.

My question is..

Do I need to configure or install something to fix this?

Note: I also experienced this sort of problem on Linux Mint and Linux Chakra

More Information: when I access somebody elses Wifi.. about..all websites display normally

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I'm guessing this might either be a rendering issue or a font issue. Windows has sub pixel rendering, or cleartype turned on by default - you can apparently activate something similar in "System > Preferences > Appearance" then fonts, then rendering.

If its missing fonts, apparently the old MS corefonts arn't available in 12.04 (I have no idea about mint or chakra). Since you have a windows 7 install, you could get a copy of those fonts and install them manually - you will need to copy the fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype (using sudo) then run sudo fc-cache -f -v - the ubuntu wiki has more complete instructions

Its probably not a wifi problem unless pages are broken halfway.

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