Concerning security and privacy, you either can get stalled because you can’t get it perfect right from the beginning, or you improve over time.
I prefer the latter one. And concerning password security I go with Troy Hunt: Password managers don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be better than not having one.
And actually the password manager of a browser is already a password manager. I would not use it for very important passwords, but it is absolutely fine for those dozens of dozens forum logins and so on. Currently, I still manage the more important passwords with VeraCrypt - which is not that comfortable, but it does its job.
works fine except when it does not
So, Google Chrome’s password manager works fine for me… except when it does not.
Chrome stopped showing the saved passwords - from one day to another. I can’t recall whether it was the Fedora 28 -> 29 Upgrade or maybe a Chrome update.
Anyway - it is extremely annoying to lookup passwords for every forum and and other sites which require a login.
the easy fix
As I sync everything my profile with Google (hum, this sounds like something I should reevaluate some time) it is just a matter of deleting the broken profile and restarting Chrome.
$ cd /home/jugmac00/.config
$ rm -rf google-chrome
It is as simple as that. And sure, I experience many more rough edges since I migrated to a Linux desktop, but I always feel like I keep the control and every problem is very easily fixable.