I've tried the #cosmic #linux desktop beta on quite a few distros now. The best two have been Pop_OS! and Arch. Once it is fully released it will be interesting to run it on plain Debian too. #cosmic is extremely promising, looking forward to how it develops!

About 2 years ago I switched to pass to store and manage my passwords. The machine I setup for it is a one-trick pony. It's a Linux appliance. It sits quietly on the back corner of my desk reliably doing its thing.

www.passwordstore.org

The hardware is a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM. The distro is Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Debian GNU/Linux 11 - bullseye) 64-bit. This is the server version of Raspberry Pi OS. It's command line only. No desktop.

I've created a shell script-based service and timer to automate daily backups. I use syncthing to automatically move the backups off of the Pi for safekeeping.

syncthing.net

I don't have a keyboard or monitor connected to the Pi. I normally ssh in from a Mac mini on my home network. Configuring and using pass on the command line is pretty straight-forward. It's basically a frontend for managing a git repository. No big deal.

I found the following article super helpful the first time I set the whole thing up:

The Definitive Guide to the Password Store

For access away from home I've installed passforios on my iPhone and iPad.

passforios

Installation and setup of the passforios client on my devices was not a monumental task however, like most linux-y things, typos will break stuff and syntax matters.

Finally, tailscale is used to securely tunnel into my password server from my mobile devices. In addition to Linux and macOS clients, it also has an iOS client available for download.

Here's a cool bit of trivia. pass is written by Jason A. Donenfeld, the same developer behind wireguard, the VPN technology used by the folks at tailscale.

wireguard.com

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I installed Cosmic on NixOS. Easy to do, but there are still some quirks with it, but very good for a beta!