Originally Posted by greenhorn
since you have an Ati card, prepare for a VERY hard and frustrating , if not impossible road to getting compiz/beryl 
if you have an nvidia onboard graphics, suggest you use them instead  |
Its not that every linux user has to run compiz/beryl. Default desktop env would be more than good enough.
I think within few months of starting he can figure that out. The config is more than enough for getting started.