I complained a while back about a digital camera that required driver installs and had nasty menus and stuff. Sent it back.
I just got an Olympus VR-340 and it's pretty nice. 10x optical zoom, auto-macro and super-macro modes. This is just a car/vacation camera, about $85.
It's pretty clean, obvious menus. It has a rechargable battery, which is nice.
With a FAT32 formatted SD memory card inside, it appears to my PC as a flash card, so no driver installs are needed, and there are no stupid Microsoft file restrictions. Any program, like Irfanview for instance, can open the files on the camera.
It comes with a plug-in USB charger, but I assume it will charge from a computer. How would it know?