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Why not use Dashlane? At least they still have a desktop app for Mac (And it is not Electron) [0]

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dashlane-password-manager/id51...

Is there any point in going with proprietary password managers when there are plenty of open source alternatives available? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers

I actually recommend Dashlane to friends and family who are non-technical because it’s much easier to use than any of the open source options I’ve seen.

Nope used both. Bitwarden is much easier.

Then I should expect you and others to be telling others to 'self-host' their passwords managers very easily. [0] Otherwise it is no different to using rest of them and you're better off with using the alternatives.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071603

I'm very much a fan of password-store on that list:

https://www.passwordstore.org/

Worst case scenario it's basically just a wrapper for GPG, so you can always get at the password if you have access to your GPG keyring.

I've also never had to directly install it on Linux, it seems to come pre-installed on most distros recently (I think it's a part of GNOME or something, even though I don't use that).

Not everyone is a tech person who can plays with their password manager in a terminal to just get the basic things working. Dashlane just works out of the box.

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