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Yes, and it's quite good. Apart from this.
I have a couple problems with it aside from being electron.
On linux, whether it is a native package or flatpak. I have to launch it twice for it to open.
I can't restore chats from my phone to the desktop application which frankly sucks. It makes sense if they don't wanna have to store extra data on their servers, but at least let the backups that I manually take on my phone be usable on the desktop. Not having the majority of your conversations from before you linked the desktop app is a pain in the arse.
Could it be yours is set to start in the tray?
Nope, its basically the same issue that the flatpak is happening, but I'm not using the flatpak. https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454
For me the january 13th solution seems to work, but I was doing that to begin with so I never noticed the issue. Signal flatpak, openSUSE Tumbleweed and KDE Plasma 6. Signal is started with --use-tray-icon --start-in-tray
Glad that it works for you. I may have to switch over to the flatpak then.