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Telegram Desktop is a genuinely native C++/Qt application — no Electron — and it shows: instant startup, smooth animations, tiny memory footprint, and full feature parity with mobile including channels, bots, folders, and file sharing up to 2GB (more with Premium). As desktop clients go, Linux users get the same first-class treatment as everyone else.
The security nuance matters: regular chats are cloud-stored and encrypted in transit, but NOT end-to-end encrypted — only Secret Chats are, and those don’t exist on desktop. Treat it as a very good messaging platform, not a private one in the Signal sense. Public group/channel culture also brings spam and scam exposure worth configuring privacy settings against.
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