Wouldn't surprise me. I'm reading other comments talking about how much they learned getting Compiz to work, meanwhile I used Beryl and remember it working immediately with no problems (on an HP laptop with Ubuntu).

Then Compiz Fusion came along (which was supposed to be all of Beryl's updates being merged into Compiz), but they dropped like 2/3rds of the effects and it became a pain to make functional at all. That was when I stopped using it.

Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota seem to have really preferred Beryl for some reason.