I have run Beryl for months and have seen many huge and nice improvements.
I switched to Beryl soon after the fork from Compiz. At the time, I was on Ubuntu Breezy. The reason of my switch was a major issue with Compiz, making it impossible for my laptop to hibernate. Beryl did it. I could have solved it by myself, maybe, but didn’t have time to dig out desktop things.
Today, it is again some bugs that pushed me to switch back from Beryl to Compiz.
I couldn’t have much free time this year, but I quickly stopped by the Solution Linux show of Paris, La Defense. It was the first time for me.
I got a weired issue with Linux clients while it worked fine with Windows machines. For some reason, the /etc/resolv.conf did not get updated. I found out a workaround thanks to this page. Of course, your server configuration file must contain (if 192.168.1.1 is your DNS server):
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"
I took several pieces of bash configuration from the net and use them as follow to be more productive with my terminal. A must have setting !
I had several bad experiences losing my data in my life. Sometimes because of the hardware, sometimes because of my stupidness or inexperience. At least, it learned to be careful. I backup my data regularly, and on several support concerning the important ones.