There are other options than Electron. Telegram's desktop app is a big factor to why I use it. There's one big drawback though that's relevant here, and that i

There are other options than Electron. Telegram's desktop app is a big factor to why I use it. There's one big drawback though that's relevant here, and that is that it doesn't support E2E encrypted chats, those are confined to the phone app. I guess it's a security feature, I haven't looked into it too much, but I don't think it would be that difficult to share keys locally between devices you own.