[geofft]

I don't any more. My current job uses Gmail.

At my last job, I used it partly because it was what I was used to, and partly because I used Linux (for my job) and there aren't any great Exchange clients for Linux. At least with the version of Exchange we ran, you only got OWA "lite" if you weren't on Internet Explorer. And I didn't really want to use Thunderbird or something.

It also has the advantage of being in the same interface that I use for everything else... basically the same reasoning that I use Slack in the browser instead of as a separate app.

The ability to consistently access my email from any device (Linux desktop, non-Linux desktop, Android, iOS, whatever) with the same UI is pretty nice. With Gmail I'm finding that the experience differs a lot based on how I connect.

Finally, console clients are good at passing through emailed patches unharmed (e.g., not converting tabs to spaces), which is useful if you participate on LKML or a small number of other open source fora where the standard way to send patches is through email. You can of course get git to talk directly to your SMTP server, but I like seeing what I'm emailing in my client before I email it.