Compiz fusion

There haven't been a whole lot of things which Ubuntu has done better than Windows. One thing it does have in its favour, however, is compiz fusion.

Now I freely admit that I don't entirely get what exactly compiz fusion replaces, or where it fits into the whole OS. My understanding is that metacity is the default app which is in charge of certain effects, like the style of window and such like. Whatever the truth, compiz fusion is certainily a very cool piece of software, and ties in nicely with the whole OS. Its main use is in things like pressing windows+e to get all your workspaces onscreen at once - much, I believe, like exposé does. All very nifty, and while probably available in windows, certainly not as easily.

Efforts to connect to the college network continue to fail - if this isn't resolved within the month, it'll be the biggest reason for my returning to Windows, which is sad as it's more of a reflection on college IT than on Ubuntu as an OS.

By the next day I hope to have investigated WINE to some extent, and I'll report back my findings. Until then...