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Now if someone could make a desktop app (perhaps using Qt or some similar cross-platform toolkit) that isn’t Electron bloatware, for all the people who don’t have a few spare CPU cores and gigabytes of RAM to spend on a messaging client.
You got to be careful as signal as sent S&D letters
There’s Flare, a Signal client written in GTK4. It still has some features missing iirc, check their wiki for that.
Is Signal known for being resource hungry? I've never noticed tbh
You can download it here!