Awesome is awesome. That simple. The 3.x series introduced a tray which removed all hesitation and made Awesome the WM of choice for me. Unfortunately for Ubuntu users (which for the time being includes me) the official repositories are quite outdated:

The Acer Aspire 8930g has got a sound card that has not only been unsupported in GNU/Linux for a long time, it has also (to this day) never been a case of having the card work out of the box in any distro.

It’s basically a “Intel HD Audio Controller” and uses the ALC889 codec. Support for this card was, according to the alsa-project.org mailing lists, incorporated in the 1.0.16 driver, receiving updates every version since.

This is my new digital home.