Just like the title suggests, any idea on replacing nautilus with Awesome WM?
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I think you are confused. Awesome WM, as the name says, its a complete window manager. On its side, Nautilus is a file manager. Anyways, this can be what you are looking for.
Windows managers are those programs which provide the windowing functionality, such as title bar, window border, moving, resizing etc. And Awesome is a window manager, which is lightweight in resource usage.
On the other hand, a File manager is a program which provides you facility to browse or navigate the file system, move, copy, create files etc. And Nautilus falls in the category of file managers, it's not a window manager. In fact, Nautilus is the most loved and used file manager in Linux desktops.
There cannot be any question of replacing a window manager with a file manager. But, yes, you could ask to replace Compiz (which is another window manager) with awesome window manager or replace nautilus with another file manager such as Thunar.
You can install and use other file manager such as PCManFM or Dolphin in Awesome WM. And there is also a file manager in terminal like Ranger.