AIGLX and compiz…OS eye candy

After upgrading to FC6 a month or so ago there’ve been a few quirky things happening on my desktop’s display. Today I was finally forced to resolve them.  And in the bargain I happened to get AIGLX and compiz working.
AIGLX is essentially some GL extensions to X that allow for fancy graphic things to happen. Thus far it’s mostly been games and maybe scientific visualation work that’s used the real power of high end graphics cards. Compiz is the default window manager for use with the GL enabled X servers. Compiz has forked and the resulting “Beryl” looks pretty slick as well. Together these all bring linux’s UI up into the eye candy realm of OSX Jaguar (and presumably MS Vista).
This stuff’s all fairly new and probably disorients many users more than helps them. Still it is interesting to see people actually pushing the desktop UI paradigm some.