Email Clients? (Tired of Web Based Mail)

[[BTF]Sigma]

I'm giving up on my old hotmail account. Don't need it anymore.

Before I dive into the world of ISP provided email I'd like to ask what you guys would recommend. I'm using Firefox now and since I just got over using IE and getting a virus, I was looking at Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/.

Now I haven't really been able to find anything other than Outlook and Thunderbird.

Are there things I should worry about with TBird? Is it safe?

[X'tyfe]

i highly suggest going with thunderbird no problems here, and been using for months
just as amazing as firefox

[[BTF]Sigma]

I do like how streamlined it is.

And well, I'm on the verge of disowning microsoft.

I'm just a short step away from trying out some of the other OS's.


*side    Does anyone have a screen shot of how a linux, unix, Irix, solaris, FreeBSD looks like?

[X'tyfe]

heh, i wouldnt go getting rid of windows yet.
linux might be free but theres still a price for using it.... you will be giving up alot
thing such as, hardware support, software support and usability

[reaper]

seconded !
i'd much rather use another OS too, just to many things they won't do at this point
I run knoppix on a hard drive, which is really the same thing as Debian a linux OS.
I use that because it does things Microsoft won't do, or will do poorly, but there's a lot of things my windows box will do that it won't , which is mostly everything I do : ).  I posted earier, I wanted to see where the MACs are at, but I don't think they are ready to do everything windows does yet either : /

[[BTF]Sigma]

Here's a question:

Will OS-X run on a PC?

[X'tyfe]

i think you would have an even worse time with os-x

my point is, changing to another os isnt gunna be pretty
after trying both the new version of mac and linux. id much rather stay with windows