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 └[artemis] sudo dpkg --purge ion3 ion3-scripts
 [sudo] password for madcoder: 
 (Reading database ... 126510 files and directories currently installed.)
 Removing ion3-scripts ...
 Purging configuration files for ion3-scripts ...
 Removing ion3 ...
 Purging configuration files for ion3 ...
 dpkg - warning: while removing ion3, directory `/etc/X11/ion3' not empty so not removed.
 dpkg - warning: while removing ion3, directory `/usr/lib/ion3/lc' not empty so not removed.
 Processing triggers for menu ...
 Processing triggers for man-db ...
 sudo dpkg --purge ion3 ion3-scripts  1,25s user 1,19s system 12% cpu 19,539 total

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I feel better now.

I'm right now a proud awesome-3-git user. The current git version has 90% of what I used in ion3. I mostly mis tabs, but I'm almost already used not to have them anymore, tiling is way better after all, and there are pure lua implementations of those around, just the current one are not nice enough (IMHO) but it can only improve. Another missing feature is autocompletion in the launch command / ssh to / ... menus. But I assume this would not really be hard to add.

OTOH there are already things that I like better in awesome: it's easier to extend than ion3, the widgets are a fantastic idea, it uses antialiased fonts, and so on. And layouts are a really clever idea for sure.

See here to see what it can look like.