It's also an issue with NVIDIA graphics drivers, electron12(and below) not working correctly with gpu sandboxing, leading to this error:[21921:0613/173615.147591:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(415)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.

The only way to work around is to use this as root or append --no-sandbox or --disable-gpu-sandboxing arguments to the etcher executable file, which is quite hard to understand for some rookie users.

Nvidia does not seem to be the actual problem as described here: NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#302

and electron devs are not planning to update electron12 since it's not suported anymore: electron/electron#34522

So updating to a newer version of electron seems to be the only way to workaround and pretty important.

*I won't bother making another issue about this since both issues rely on updating to a newer version of electron

Electron 12 used by etcher is EOL (end of life). Installing it on NixOS results in a warning which is quite annoying.

It's not only "annoying" but a security nightmare. 💣

Even critical CVE's are not fixed anymore because etcher builds their telemetry and advertising program on top of obsolete software - luckily the first package maintainers are getting rid of etcher already to protect their users. 👍