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When you can't use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn't.
Assuming end-to-end encryption is what's meant in the question.
You can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram.
But then I'd ask the other person to use the same thing, and we'd both use OTR for encryption, not TG's bogus E2EE.
wow I haven't used Pidgin in like a decade