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
it was this flex in particular that nudged teen viv down the desktop linux path
