I think my paranoia was bred from Win95 days when everyone could Vulcan neck pinch without looking at the keyboard from sheer practice. Nowadays those events are consigned to the trash and if you get consistent crashing then a) check app website for patches and new updates, b) inform app dev of crashing and try to be specific about exactly what happened and then if no avail - c) dump said app. Not worth the stress !

Try giving the Gimp a quick thrashing. You will have RobA giving you loads of scripts to help out before you know it. If he gets any better at it then he will have voice recognition wired up where it will ask what kind of map you want and in what style then it will draw it for you.