A bit offtopic, but does Telegram-cli work again? Or maybe it never stopped working in the first place? When I used Arch some years ago that was my preferred client, but it was unmantained and it finally stopped working.
Not sure, I've been using version 1.4.1 for an eternity now on SFOS (openSUSE). It is pretty broken when it comes to media or encrypted chats but still does the job for me.