If you ran Fedora, you'd be alpha-testing features included in the OS when it is KNOWN they are not ready for prime time, but included anyway since Fedora is the alpha test environment for RHEL. Some of us are not willing to do this. I was a loyal RedHat user until RedHat went away, so I'm not saying this out of rpm allergy (although now that I've switched, I'm never going back.)
You know, just about any modern distro has this now. Ubuntu, Arch, hell, even Slackware supports DRI2 for ATI out of the box now.
I've run Blender maybe twice and I will never play WoW. But I use Compiz features not just every day, but every hour. Expose and Shrink Windows are tied to hot corners and I use one or the other almost every time I switch windows.
Yeah, I bet you do spin the cube for hours at a time. You so l33t.
"So I know this is gonna kill my karma, but..."
If only.
Given who the GP is, I'm sure he has plenty of karma to burn. I might just have to find his posts and give him some more for making DRI2 and 3D work on my AMD/ATI card in the first place.