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Based on experience over the past two years, I'd say definitely no.
Windows is flakey and annoying, yes, but Ubuntu can give you really big problems.
If you've got lots of spare time to get into...

My "upgrade" boots to the GRUB menu, shows the Ubuntu splash screen, then tells me "your screen, graphics card and other devices are not recognised" and gives me the command prompt on a black screen....

So does mine after "upgrading" to 12.04.
Try ctrl+alt+d to show the desktop.
I'll be going back to Windows as lots of others will.

After a complete Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade, bootup message says "your screen, graphics card and input device settings could not be detected properly".
Click on OK (the mouse cursor works) and I am asked...

I've been trying to get my Canon iP1500 to work with Oneiric ever since last October when it stopped working when I upgraded from Natty. I've tried just about every trick in the forums, including...

Canon iP1500 printer driver (!!) It stopped working with 11.10 I now depend on Windows for all my printing.

TMPGEnc - Excellent video editing with smart rendering, encoding authoring and burning...

I started on Ubuntu 11.04 with a dual boot system six months ago. My plan was to go over to Ubuntu completely from Windows XP by now as I counted myself as an enthusiastic fan of Ubuntu.
However...

I've used K3B once and it worked but after a lot of evaluation work I have taken all my audio/video applications back to Windows XP and just use Ubuntu for office, internet & email:
TMPGEnc
EAC...

I have two Gogear Raga mp3 players that show same problem. I have tried numbering the id3 tracks tags and the also filename (01,02,03 etc)with no luck.
I have tried deleting all other id3 tags apart...

You should be fine with "data cd", I've done that with no problems and it works. Try burning at 8x speed. Modern hi-speed CDRs have such a thin layer that a high speed burn may give "just acceptable"...

The Fear of Geeks: Anoraknophobia