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> At this point, the Telegram and Signal desktop clients are fairly basic

This is not true.

While I would never trust Telegram with sensitive data, their desktop client is by far the best IM desktop client I have ever tried. It's feature rich, native and beats Slack, Teams and any of the web/electron based clients.

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The changelogs show an almost feature parity between the desktop https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog and the mobile https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/HEA... which lead me to think that whoever wrote this article didn't make the right amount of research.

The Telegram Desktop client is definitely better than others, but it doesn't support E2EE, which is a deal breaker for many.

I (and many others) like Telegram for non-sensitive group chats accessible on mobile, laptop or desktop. But when encryption matters, those chats stay on Signal.

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