As the title suggests - while on a desktop, do you use gmail.com to access your gmail account (@gmail.com or @domain.com) or do you prefer a desktop client? (Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, etc...)<p>Specifically curious about Gmail accounts, but as most all email accounts have a web interface, no harm in voting for which one for those.
Desktop client.<p>Being productive in Gmail feels impossible. Even in comparison to the decade old outlook 2007 I feel like I'm in less control.<p>The interface feels slow. The gui controls are limited, opaque and have all the GUI concessions that only webapps have to have. I don't know if users would ever accept this from a native desktop application, and it's a damn shame that they've still managed enough market-share to kill Thunderbird and turn that into a directionless turd. I don't how I'd ever mange my professional email workload in gmail.<p>With their interface, emails are something that happen to you and unless you get to click "archive" and never think about 99.9% of then again, it's impossible to keep up.
Personal Email: Google Inbox (web)<p>Work Email: Google Apps Gmail (web)<p>I used Sparrow in the past (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_(email_client)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_(email_client)</a>) for a few months until they were acquired by Google. Now some of the features they had were implemented in Gmail and Google Inbox.
I use the web interface for personal email (specifically, Google Inbox for gmail) & Alpine for work (because the web interface for that service is Outlook Web, which is unusable).