Proprietary, meet Delete

The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives, from homotron.net. I looked through the list and saw a few that I could use. I switched to Firefox a while back and found it much better than the IE of the time (and even the new one, which I really dislike because everything is placed horribly).

At the end of last semester I switched over from Microsoft Office 2000 to OpenOffice, and I just switched my e-mail client from Microsoft Outlook 2000 (I didn't uninstall Office yet) to Mozilla Thunderbird, and, even though I have to learn everything for these kinds of programs all over again, I'm finding them easy enough to use. I've used some other free open-source programs, like NetBeans and Praat, and found them very easy to use, as well as some that weren't that I hated and consequently don't remember. I hope the former true for some of these other popular ones because I'll probably download something for a web editor and a graphics program, mostly because I want to make some mind maps for some things in my field, like language history and typology (though I may end up trying to figure out more Java stuff to make an applet). Thoughts? Criticism?