This woman must be extremely computer illiterate (I know many people I'd consider to be computer illiterate, none of them match up to this...) or looking for attention.

I personally love Ubuntu. Having always used windows, I decided to get into linux. A friend of mine who's an avid fan of Debian suggested Ubuntu to start off with, then move into other distro's once I got the hang of it.. I'm glad I did so. Despite how much many linux fan trash talk it for various reasons (mostly I've heard that it's just generally not as good because of its ease...) it's a great distro for those moving away from windows for the first time. Jumping into other distro's would just be mean.