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1Password vs BitWarden (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by schmurnan to c/technology

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Just wondered what people are using for their password management.

I’m currently using 1Password on a family subscription for both password management and 2FA (and then Authy for the 1Password 2FA). But I’m seeing a lot more posters — particularly since joining Lemmy — championing BitWarden (either cloud or self hosted) and Raivo OTP as a cheaper, almost-as-functional alternative.

So is it worth the switch? Will I lose out on anything by doing so?

I’m currently running BitWarden with a free account to see if I can live with it. But I must admit, 1Password is a staple app for me and one that I would say is priceless to my workflow and setup.

Just interested in your thoughts and trying to stimulate conversation!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never understood those problems. I'm not saying they don't exist, I haven't investigated it or anything lol, but I don't see why individual non-electron programs have less overhead than individual electron programs when the argument is that multiple would-be electron apps could share one browser instance because multiple non-electron apps also don't share anything.

Also I don't see how not using a chromium base would make programs better about having massive 1 GB directories of various temp files.

What am I missing? Because clearly those problems exist.

[–] schmurnan 1 points 1 year ago

I can’t say I fully understand the ins and outs of it because, like you, I’ve never looked into it in any great detail.

I’ve used VS Code for a while and I remember seeing a post on Reddit about how good it is “for an Electron app”, which raised my interest. I then saw more and more complaints about Electron apps, mainly around how they consume a lot of resource and ultimately crash peoples machines, resulting in data loss.

Don’t get me wrong, I see the benefits of Electron apps — they’re easy to deploy across multiple OSes which makes things a lot easier for developers. But I guess as a macOS user, I do love a native app for its look and feel and user experience. Not knocking that on all Electron apps, it’s just a preference.