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Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by iamcreasy »

pier25 wrote: post #76
progx wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitwarden https://bitwarden.com/ Has clients for all platforms, open source, self hosting or free plans and saas. Waited long time for 1password for linux and switched last year to bitwarden. Family Account for 6 Users ($40 per year)

Bitwarden is awesome. It's my current password manager after I left 1P. I spent hundreds into 1P before the subscription model, as their apps were expensive and got them on multiple OS and for family members. Then Dropbox decided (rightfully) that you shouldn't use your public folder to host websites, and 1P told their customers to either get a subscription or lose the online vault which is a critical feature of any…

> Then Dropbox decided (rightfully) that you shouldn't use your public folder to host websites

I did not know about it. Can you still do it with other provides such as Microsoft(OneDrive) and Google(Drive)?

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by nly »

tored wrote: post #68
throwaway894345 wrote: post #32

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I meant "they suck for developers", not necessarily for users. I'd rather not get into details because the topic tends to invite flame from some C and especially C++ developers and I don't have the energy for that this morning.

Personally I prefer building GUIs in a scripting language like JavaScript over a compiled language like C and C++, GUIs changes a lot and needs to be tweaked in another way than system code does, so it is understandable to pick Electron, even though I loath the result. The Qt approach with QML + JavaScript with a C++ backend worked in that regard quite well, expose low level system calls from C++ and call it from Jav…

Trying to create scalable UIs in QML is hell.

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by bwoodruff »

kwanbix wrote: post #117
signal11 wrote: post #103

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I started with 1Password 4 (non-subscription) and considered upgrading to 1Password 7 -- yes, you could buy a non-subscription copy when I checked, although it's increasingly well hidden as an option -- and in addition to Dropbox it may have supported iCloud, not sure about that. In the end I went with the subscription because I it's bought once for all my devices, and is great for family use, with UX that's easy fro…

I agree on supporting your vendor, however, I think 1Password is too expensive. That is why I pay for Bitwarden. The difference is 33% less expensive (or 50% more expensive if you look it from the Bitwarden side). I think 3.33 euros per months is about a good valance.

An individual 1Password membership is €2.65+VAT per month when invoiced annually. - Ben, 1Password

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by boomer918 »

tzs wrote: post #34

Interesting: > 1Password for Linux also debuts with several features that are coming soon to 1Password for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android That should be encouraging for Linux users. It suggests that the Linux version is not just a port that will forever at best follow the other platforms. It can get pretty annoying when you have something that is available on multiple platforms, and your platform tends to always lag…

Reads like a love letter to Linux, it's great.

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by rvz »

tpush wrote: post #49
rvz wrote: post #14

What a scam. All this hype and it is another Electron app. Windows and Mac versions are native and yet Linux gets a version that uses 'Electron'. Yuck. Fortunately, to give us the illusion that it is 'fast' they need to mention that it uses 'Rust'. And?

There is no 'native' GUI in Linux. Skia rendering you UI is not any less native than GTK's or Qt's rendering engine doing so.

> There is no 'native' GUI in Linux.

No where in my sentence is talking about the GUI alone, and that is another Linux problem for another discussion.

It is enough to say here that if the whole app is running in a browser, it is NOT a native app. That is that.

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by nly »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #6
pjmlp wrote: post #2

Yes, it is yet another Electron app. https://github.com/1password/electron-hardener

In fairness, Linux GUI toolkits suck a lot. I was a professional Qt developer in a past life and while it stands head and shoulders above GTK, that’s really not saying much. I’ve often thought about making my own toolkit, but there’s so much that we forget about from things like focus to accessibility to text layout and rendering (much text has been rendered on why text rendering sucks). My hope is that Rust breathes…

I don't think it's anything to do with toolkits, and everything to do with packaging and ABI issues.

You can't distribute a commercial, binary app for 'Linux' easily unless you statically link everything (which you cannot do with Qt without breaking the license) and compile on something ancient.

Even using something like Qt, writing a C++ GUI app for the 3 major platforms (macOS, Windows and Linux) is about 10x more work than getting something like Electron working and distributed.

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by gtf21 »

CamJN wrote: post #105
apozem wrote: post #63

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1Password in Firefox unlocking the desktop app caught my eye. I'm on Mac and have to unlock 1Password in Firefox completely separately from the desktop Mac app.

Use the "classic" extension, it already does this. And has the added bonus of not putting ALL of your passwords into your browser memory.

Did the classic extension work on Linux? When I switched from MacOS having to use the (terrible) 1PasswordX was one of the things that really annoyed me.

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by pseudalopex »

fastball wrote: post #60
wyuenho wrote: post #24

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I'm just surprised people call Electron apps "native" now.

The issue is that we call pure web apps "apps" too now, so it can be hard to differentiate. We just released desktop clients (electron) for our platform, and native was a term I didn't want to use but it is quite helpful to distinguish the two.

You just called them desktop apps. Or you can call them Windows, macOS, and Linux apps.

Re: 1Password for Linux

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Post by 1cvmask »

bassdropvroom wrote: post #43
1cvmask wrote: post #12

We at saas pass authenticator and password manager solved the linux support by building a comprehensive browser extension application that does not require a desktop app at all. It is a different approach eliminating the need for a local client. All the major browsers on Linux are supported including chromium. (helped with design of the browser extension)

Sure, but a browser extension cannot handle anything outside the browser. Which for many is fine, but there are still plenty of individuals who need that outside the of the browser.

Absolutely correct. For those edge cases there is a copy/paste available from the web portal or browser extension.
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