By default Ubuntu leaves out the compiz settings manager. This utility allows allows you to tweak all the settings avaiable in compiz.

use apt-get on the command line or start menu - add/remove programs

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

or search for it in the package manager and install it from there.

or just get it here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/compizconfig-settings-manager

you can just execute a .deb package in ubuntu. It's similar to .msi in windows only in ubuntu/Debian almost all software is available this way.
That’s it.

Ready to run, I was convinced the moment someone showed me compiz.
With ubuntu I can do everything I did with windows and more!