[gkbrk]

This doesn't affect the user that downloads these from distro repos or F-Droid because every single update they get comes from the source code. There is never a lag even for 1 second because without the source code there are no builds.

Pretty much all the packages on Linux repos come from package maintainers taking upstream source code, removing parts they don't like and then building that. This is a normal part of packaging and building open-source apps.

[OSI-Auflauf]

Yes and thats why users spend sometimes months on old builds.

Also which distro packages Telegram?

Fedora doesn't. Debian does but at times it was so old the client crashed from receiving server comms because it wasn't fully compatible. It actually crashed as in segfault.

[5e92cb50239222b]

https://repology.org/project/telegram-desktop/versions

[kaba0]

Nix, arch, basically everything packages it.

[saagarjha]

I take it you haven't been following Telegram for iOS and macOS.