Programs I Use and Prefer

Here's an assortment of programs that have a permanent spot on my desktop.  This page is pure opinion.  But I recommend all of these from experience, so it could be worse.  My general approach is not to pay for software, ever... unless it's a computer game.  If I can customize it, it gets bonus points.  If it's "Web 2.0," I have problems with it.

Web Browser: Pale Moon A time capsule-ish fork of Firefox with purely usable interface	Email Client: FossaMail Thunderbird fork which fixes some bugs	IM Client: Pidgin Formerly known as Gaim.  Lets me have just one program running for all IM needs.  Pretty solid.  I dislike some of the icons it uses, but I've changed those myself.
Web Page Design: KompoZer Simple free combination WYSIWYG and raw HTML web page designer.	FTP Client: Filezilla Nice and easy to use and stores passwords and starting directories for the handful of FTP sites I use.	P2P Client: µTorrent Useful, pretty well known, and few, if any major problems with it. (e.g. targetting by MAFIAA)
Music Player: Winamp Nice and small player that can be skinned. Also works well with the media buttons on my laptop	Everything Player: VLC  Media Player It can play almost any video file.  It can also do captions, which is a great plus for me.	Music Editing: Goldwave Practically free forever, considering how infrequently I need to use it.
Image Editing: GIMP Free, capable, and a slippery learning curve. I've been using it for years, and it keeps getting better, so it's my default.	Vector Editing: Inkscape Free and fairly easy to use. Has the rare stability problem, but I like it.  I've used it for a few logos, and more importantly, for diagrams for lab reports and the like.	Image Viewer: Irfan View Super fast, and can view any image, as well as good for quick cropping of screenshots, and such.