Now that I've learned how to deal with the Ubuntu upgrade process they are usually pretty painless for me even when something goes wrong. This time I lost the network manager applet icon on two machines during the upgrade but didn't have any other major issues.
They've added some useless envelope icon to the panel but you can remove it by getting rid of the indicator-messages package.
I also ended up leaving compiz off and sticking with Nautilus. Now that Nouveau is in by default everything works well even without nvidia's drivers.
Nautilus doesn't have as many features as compiz and there's no nice advanced-feature gui configurator like ccsm (gconf-editor doesn't count), but it does manage to draw pixels to the screen slightly faster than compiz does. Compositing saves CPU when dragging windows and such but it doesn't really matter when you have a quad core; at least one core is always free unless the machine is thrashing or encoding video or something.
The only thing I really miss is that I had gotten in the habit of using meta+mouse wheel {left, right, up, down} to switch workspaces; in nautilus you can only switch with keyboard shortcuts. Oh well.
I've been thinking about switching to xmonad, but not today.
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