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Note they're not encrypted. This is not safe. Dont do it.
Not by default, but yea it is encrypted, I use almost exclusively encrypted chats through TG, even my voice and video calls are encrypted through TG.
E2e encryption is security theater though, a chance for companies to tell states "We'D lOvE tO hAnD oVeR tHaT dAtA bUt ItS eNcYpTeD".
In reality, it doesn't matter, if someone wants to snoop on your convos you can't stop them.
Telegram desktop doesn't support e2ee
Android emulators exist on both windows and Linux allowing the android variant to run on desktop. With most modern machines this is a viable alternative to running natively, with some overhead of course.
Last time I tried that, they banned the telegram account.
Unfortunately companies like Telegram see emulators and they get false-positive banned by their fraud systems