Not disparaging your prior experience, but Ion is quite the different animal from the Express.
The theater company at Calvin College purchased an Ion this past fall, and I have loved it so far. It worked well using our inventory of scrollers, gobo rotators, and I-Cues. I like the programing language (much better than the Congo, imo). A problem we have encountered is that we can not mirror the screens, so as to have one in the house for the designer and the other in the booth for the board op during techs and dresses. There might be some way to do it, but we dont know it. Anyhow, have fun learning a new system!
True mirror mode is coming shortly. When this is implemented, another device can be set to mirror another devices screens completely. Right now - as I'm sure you've discovered, if you set your designer as the same user as the programmer, the designer can see the command line of the programmer, and will be in the same operating mode as the programmer, but has his own screen formats and flexi-states. When Mirror Mode is implemented, we will maintain this current behavior when more than one device is set as the same user... as many designers do like it.
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