Hiya, welcome.
Sure you’re allowed to mention bitminter lol I wouldn’t see why not. As for mining… I am using cgminer with a gpu i had lying around. The last cgminer version to support GPUs is 3.7.2. After that version cgminer is ASIC-only afaik.
For CPU using I’m using… cpuminer. It gets the job done ;)
For a pool I have always thought give-me-coins.com has been a very nice one. It solves blocks fairly quickly, but really, the aesthetics are just so nice.
Have fun!