Update on Minergate
So I really enjoy the user interface and the ease of use. It truly is made well and gives the user the most flexibility to mine coins of their choice.
The only bad part about it that I would say is a big downfall is that there is no way to know if your being cheated of your hash power since the user interface can read out anything. For that reason alone I would only use it as a learning tool in the coin mining space.
Overall for a new miner I would say this is a good entry level platform. For serious miners, there are much better programs that have plenty of detail and transparency.