dunno, but the thing about people hating command-lines is just like the reason everybody fails maths, because they're expecting it to be a extremely difficult good-for-nothing pain.
wich is pure bull****... you'll only need to learn TWO commands yourself, "apt-get" and "sudo"... and thanks to kynaptic package manager even those are uneccesary.... in other words, the only ubuntu terminal commands you actually need to do are those you copy from the web page you found what you wanted to do/install.
and personally, i like typing a simple "gedit" instead of going the long way:
->start->programfiles->10-30secs of searching->acessories->notepad/wordpad.