One of the things that people really love about Ubuntu is the extra eye candy that compiz brings to the desktop. This isn't exclusive to Ubuntu of course but is extremely easy to get going in Ubuntu. First off you will probably need to enable restricted drivers for your graphics card. Simply go to System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers. Simply place a check by your graphic card driver. You will probably have to download the drivers and reboot your system after this.
Next you should be ready to enable the effects. Go to System --> Preferences --> Appearance. Click on the Visual Effects and enable the Extra Effects. You can try this before enabling the restricted drivers, if you do not have the correct drivers you will then have to go and install them.
Next you will probably want to enable the desktop cube and all of that great stuff so open up Synaptic and search for compizconfig-settings-manager. After this is installed go to System --> Preferences --> Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. You will then have all of the effects at your disposal.
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