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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.

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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