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Maricelle Thomas has a MBA with a background in Engineering and IT. She started out as an Industrial Engineer and later moved into supporting and implementing ERP systems and Web Applications. A strong interest in the Arts and Creative fields led to her current gig as a Tech Blogger. Her deep experience in Business Analysis and various technologies enable her to provide her readers with a rich perspective on how technology can improve their daily lives. Check out her videos on YouTube or read up on her latest posts at Google +, Blogger and getlinuxanswers.com.
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"One must practically be able to code to perform customization. A lack of intuitive GUI, it's a mess of pieces and parts. Painful navigation. I have made several attempts to try and make a Linux box be my main machine at home, starting with Redhat 7, there is just a massive step to make one a PRODUCTIVE workstation."
My Mom (in her late 70's) who uses an iPad all day for social networking has no problem navigating Ubuntu 12.10's Unity interface to read or print content she can't execute on her iPad. By the way, she didn't start using modern PC's until my brother taught her how 2 years ago. In case you weren't aware, making changes to the Linux Mint and Ubuntu desktop are "menu driven", which do not require "coding" abilities whatsoever.
As an aside, Google just signed a deal with VmWare to access legacy and current Windows applications via thin client on Chromebooks.
Google is seriously targeting the mainstream enterprise for its chromebooks with this announcement:
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140212-913370.html