this was on pretty modest hardware, too, a budget Athlon II x3 with an onboard RadeonHD 3200. i was excited at the time because AMD had bought ATi and was having them publicize some documentation of their architecture and support the development of an open-source driver, so we wouldn't be stuck fucking with fglrx any more. being able to flex how much my system could run at once felt important to me as a metric for some reason, and being able to tilt the cube partially - and have all the 3D-rendered consoles still render to their windows correctly - meant i could show twice as many application windows at a time
Compiz-Fusion is what got me into linux and I'm so sad that we can't do fun wacky shit with our desktop environments anymore
whenever I see a Compiz cube screencap that one song from the Matrix (Clubbed to Death) starts playing in my head every single time
my first exploration of compiz in like 2004 involved setting bouncing windows, the window friction to 0, moving the window
...and learning you could only move sliders on stationary windows.
thankfully my cube only had 4 faces, not 6, so every time it bounced off the top or bottom the settings window lost momentum very slowly
