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Installation guide recommends Etcher, but Etcher only shows a white screen on elementary OS

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Description

### What Happened?

Balena Etcher shows only a white screen.

![Screenshot from 2022-12-05 20-01-49](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3705829/205735377-4a3eca54-8b8d-4f9c-aa19-1d858297f01f.png)

This happened on both eOS 5.x and on a fresh install of 6.1 now that I have it installed.

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Follow the instructions on the Installation page and Download Etcher from balena.io/etcher.
2. Give the .appimage execute permissions and launch it.

### Expected Behavior

I expected that I would be able to write the disk image using Etcher as in the instructions on the web page.

### OS Version

6.x (Odin)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

```shell
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 20:13:27.956: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 20:13:28.054: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.054: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.055: unwatch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (active: 0, establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.055: watch_established: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/http/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/https/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/ftp/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/socks/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/http/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/https/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/ftp/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.058: watch_established: "/system/proxy/socks/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: unwatch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (active: 2, establishing: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/http/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/https/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.309: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/ftp/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.309: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/socks/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
mesa: for the --simplifycfg-sink-common option: may only occur zero or one times!
mesa: for the --global-isel-abort option: may only occur zero or one times!
mesa: for the --amdgpu-atomic-optimizations option: may only occur zero or one times!
ready-to-show: 1.004s
```

### Hardware Info

Computer specs:
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX580
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 16GB DDR4 3200

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