com.microsoft.Edge VS com.skype.Client

edge from flathub-beta works ok here is exactly deb convert to flatpak https://github.com/flathub/com.microsoft.Edge/blob/beta/com.microsoft.Edge.yaml

The link is here: https://github.com/flathub/com.microsoft.Edge/issues/214

"I'm running FooLinux, I refuse to run Flatpak, and I want to use Fuse, and Citra, and MS Edge, and Minecraft Modpack Manager, and BoilR, and Yuzu! And they must all stay up-to-date! And I will not use Flatpak! They must be packaged specifically for FooLinux!"

Disclaimer - Not sure if Edge will work exactly the same as on Windows as I don't use it. But there is a Flatpak version of it as well https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.microsoft.Edge

TYL that Microsoft ports some of their stuff to Linux just because they can.

Also in Flatpak which is handy for a Steam Deck: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.microsoft.Edge

Screen sharing seems to be a difficult problem to resolve. Zoom only just resolved this recently[1], Webex has been promising a fix for a while[2], and Skype still hasn't done anything[3].

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/6634039380877-Zoom...

[2] https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/9vstcdb/Webex-App-for-L...

[3] https://github.com/flathub/com.skype.Client/issues/142

If the device still works in the os and just not in skype. I would try the flatpak package. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.skype.Client

https://snapcraft.io/skype or Flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.skype.Client

I also found some old issue on Github Latest version of Skype won't run #70

Alternatively one can use the Flatpak packaged Skype.

I have no idea if that is true or not, I haven't used Skype for more than a decade. But, an app running as a Flatpak can't directly create files in /etc/ even if that directory was exposed in the sandbox (which it isn't in the Skype flatpak, as you can see here), just like any other process running as a non-root user can't create files in /etc/ (unless your permissions on /etc/ are severely messed up). So if what you claim is true, it has nothing to do with Flatpak's sandbox or with portals. And since in the default configuration the pulseaudio daemon (which is running outside the sandbox) does not run as root either, I severly doubt that what you claim here is true at all.