Most of the research workers and Engineering Students need to make their Project Work and thesis work in Latex. Now Latex is not a nightmare, Lot of Graphical Front end softwares are available for Latex. Here You can See a simple Lightweight Lates Editor for Linux Users. It is written in python
You can Download Deb file from Here
Double click on deb file and install with gdebi
or
$sudo dpkg-i gummi_0.4.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb