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Originally Posted by sailor
Yeah. My problem with gimp is that it feels like the UI was designed by a monkey on crack. So hard to use, so unintuitive... Once you figure it out, its fine, but there is quite a steep learning curve.
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It wasn't designed by a monkey on crack, it was designed by a geek. The difference is subtle but important.
Seriously, Geeks are notorious for their lack of any sort of stylistic sense. GIMP is designed to be powerful and it is; user-friendly is not an emphasis, as it's expected anyone who needs to do what GIMP lets them do will take the time to RTFM and figure it out.
As for my votes,
AVG is a decent anti-virus program that I've used for years. They have a free edition specifically for private, non-commercial use. While it does lack some of the features of AVG Pro, those features are ones that the average user has no want or need for anyway.
Continuing on the security front,
ZoneAlarm is notoriously championed by Steve Gibson as the premier firewall. I've never used it myself but have heard mixed things, so it's a case of
caveat emptor.
I've always used
Freerip to convert my cd's to mp3's. I was eternally grateful that I have when my car was broken into about a year ago and approixmately 20 cd's were stolen. Fortunately for me, I still have digital copies of said cd's residing safely on my hard drive as well as backup dvd's.