My understanding (and I could be entirely wrong) was that compiz was never actually meant to be as big as it was. Compositing was desirable for perfectly mundan

My understanding (and I could be entirely wrong) was that compiz was never actually meant to be as big as it was. Compositing was desirable for perfectly mundane reasons, and compiz was a rather cheesy tech demo. I always found it amusing that while I considered compiz a novel way to test that compositing was functioning, others considered it the entire reason to switch DEs, or even OSes.