... it is not opinion based. It is just a question.

It's possible that you may be confused slightly on the close reason, but that's entirely understandable. The banner at the top clearly (and yet confusingly!) says:

This question is opinion-based.

However, the problem isn't that the question is based on opinion. If you follow the help page that's linked, the problem is that:

This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.

So it's not your question, it's that the answers to it are likely to be opinion-based.

Why is it a flatpak?

This, in itself, seems to be your main (at least first) question; and many people would consider the reason why to be a matter of opinion. Unless the author of the theme answers, the rest of us can probably only speculate on why it was packaged as a Flatpak rather than a .deb. My guess/opinion, for instance, would be that the theme's author felt it was easier to target multiple distributions with a Flatpak than to limit themselves to Debian-based distributions or have to create multiple packages.

From there, it's entirely too possible to get into a "war of competing opinions" in the "answers" as to whether or not things like this should be packaged as Flatpaks, etc. That's the type of "forum"/"discussion" behavior that Stack tries to avoid so that it remains focused on being a "Question and Answer" site.

But given the rest of your context, and the answer that you accepted, it seems your "real question" is more around:

• Why did this Flatpak get installed on my system?
• Is it safe to remove this Flatpak?
• Is there a similar theme available via the standard repositories?

Personally, as a voter, I probably would have take the full context of the question into account and left a comment recommending that you rewrite or replace the, "Why is it a flatpak" portion.

But I can certainly see how readers/voters zero'd in on that particular question, especially since it is the first listed.

Consider editing that to replace, "Why is it a flatpak?" with something like:

• Why did this get installed on my system as a Flatpak?
• Is there a technical reason why this needs to be a Flatpak?

... it is not opinion based. It is just a question.

It's possible that you may be confused slightly on the close reason, but that's entirely understandable. The banner at the top clearly (and yet confusingly!) says:

This question is opinion-based.

However, the problem isn't that the question is based on opinion. If you follow the help page that's linked, the problem is that:

This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.

So it's not your question, it's that the answers to it are likely to be opinion-based.

Why is it a flatpak?

This, in itself, seems to be your main (at least first) question; and many people would consider the reason why to be a matter of opinion. Unless the author of the theme answers, the rest of us can probably only speculate on why it was packaged as a Flatpak rather than a .deb. My guess/opinion, for instance, would be that the theme's author felt it was easier to target multiple distributions with a Flatpak than to limit themselves to Debian-based distributions or have to create multiple packages.

From there, it's entirely too possible to get into a "war of competing opinions" in the "answers" as to whether or not things like this should be packaged as Flatpaks, etc. That's the type of "forum"/"discussion" behavior that Stack tries to avoid so that it remains focused on being a "Question and Answer" site.

But given the rest of your context, and the answer that you accepted, it seems your "real question" is more around:

• Why did this Flatpak get installed on my system?
• Is it safe to remove this Flatpak?
• Is there a similar theme available via the standard repositories?

Personally, as a voter, I probably would have take the full context of the question into account and left a comment recommending that you rewrite or replace the, "Why is it a flatpak" portion.

But I can certainly see how readers/voters zero'd in on that particular question, especially since it is the first listed.

It's likely (IMHO) a very easy reopen with some minor changes. Consider editing to replace, "Why is it a flatpak?" with something like:

• Why did this get installed on my system as a Flatpak? (which I see @Dan has done in an edit just now)
• Is there a technical reason why this needs to be a Flatpak?

However, note that I might be missing part of the reason why people voted to close as Opinion-based, so I'd encourage you to look for other comments/answers/suggestions here as well.

It's possible that you may be confused slightly on the close reason, but that's entirely understandable. The banner at the top clearly (and yet confusingly!) says:

This question is opinion-based.

However, the problem isn't that the question is based on opinion. If you follow the help page that's linked, the problem is that:

This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.

So it's not your question, it's that the answers are likely to be opinion-based.

Why is it a flatpak?

This, in itself, seems to be your main (at least first) question; and many people would consider the reason why to be a matter of opinion. Unless the author of the theme answers, the rest of us can probably only speculate on why it was packaged as a Flatpak rather than a .deb. My guess/opinion, for instance, would be that the author of theme felt it was easier to target multiple distributions with a Flatpak than to limit themselves to Debian-based distributions or have to create multiple packages.

From there, it's entirely too possible to get into a "war of competing opinions" in the "answers" as to whether or not things like this should be packaged as Flatpaks, etc.

But given the rest of your context, and the answer that you accepted, it seems your "real question" is more around:

• Why did this Flatpak get installed on my system?
• Is it safe to remove this Flatpak?
• Is there a similar theme available via the standard repositories?

Personally, as a voter, I probably would have take the full context of the question into account and left a comment recommending that you rewrite or replace the, "What is it a flatpak" portion.

But I can certainly see how readers/voters zero'd in on that particular question, especially since it is the first listed.

... it is not opinion based. It is just a question.

It's possible that you may be confused slightly on the close reason, but that's entirely understandable. The banner at the top clearly (and yet confusingly!) says:

This question is opinion-based.

However, the problem isn't that the question is based on opinion. If you follow the help page that's linked, the problem is that:

This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.

So it's not your question, it's that the answers to it are likely to be opinion-based.

Why is it a flatpak?

This, in itself, seems to be your main (at least first) question; and many people would consider the reason why to be a matter of opinion. Unless the author of the theme answers, the rest of us can probably only speculate on why it was packaged as a Flatpak rather than a .deb. My guess/opinion, for instance, would be that the theme's author felt it was easier to target multiple distributions with a Flatpak than to limit themselves to Debian-based distributions or have to create multiple packages.

From there, it's entirely too possible to get into a "war of competing opinions" in the "answers" as to whether or not things like this should be packaged as Flatpaks, etc. That's the type of "forum"/"discussion" behavior that Stack tries to avoid so that it remains focused on being a "Question and Answer" site.

But given the rest of your context, and the answer that you accepted, it seems your "real question" is more around:

• Why did this Flatpak get installed on my system?
• Is it safe to remove this Flatpak?
• Is there a similar theme available via the standard repositories?

Personally, as a voter, I probably would have take the full context of the question into account and left a comment recommending that you rewrite or replace the, "Why is it a flatpak" portion.

But I can certainly see how readers/voters zero'd in on that particular question, especially since it is the first listed.

Consider editing that to replace, "Why is it a flatpak?" with something like:

• Why did this get installed on my system as a Flatpak?
• Is there a technical reason why this needs to be a Flatpak?