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Comment by wferrell | Hacker News Reader

What did you switch to if you stopped using 1Password?

Bitwarden. One of the big reasons for doing so was because when I left my company, they took my Mac away from me, so I invested in a new laptop, for me there was no way I was going for Windows or Mac. So Linux it is. 1Password at the time had extremely poor support for Linux - no desktop client, their 1PasswordX was missing a lot of features and was super slow too.

I switched to Bitwarden because it's open source, and because they have a good enough Linux client. Their browser extension and desktop client doesn't come close to what 1Password provided on Mac, but it does the job.

Bitwarden isn't without its issues, but at $10 a year, and its open source nature, it's worth every penny and then some.

Thanks for sharing. I’m sorry it took us so long to release a native Linux app. We have a great app for Linux now in beta and will move it to an official release shortly.

https://blog.1password.com/1password-for-linux-beta-is-now-o...

I hope you can give us another chance.

—Dave 1Password Founder

Thank you, I'm aware of the Linux client and it got me excited when it was announced, however since switching, OSS has become more and more important to me, so it's unlikely that I'll switch back.

You can self-host this unofficial version https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs if you prefer. maybe not worth $10/month of your time amortized to set up, but it has been fire-and-forget for me.

My kids have started accumulating more passwords than they can memorize (and their memorized passwords were terrible), so I wanted a family password manager. I considered using "1password for familes" which I have access to for free from my day job, but if/when I leave the company then I'll have to go back to paying for it. So far I greatly prefer the experience of bitwarden over 1password. I use the web vault, the native mac app, and the linux command line app (through a janky homegrown dmenu/xclip shell script), and I have no complaints at all.

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