Regarding overloading the environment: I'm talking about overloading "out of the box", compared, for example, with the same Fedora. And I noticed that not only me, but also users from Reddit/YouTube and the like. That's why I suggested reducing the base set and the set that is set by default, since it's not difficult to "install" in general (considering the presence of templates), but it can be scary for the unprepared to remove it (especially if he prefers to do it using patterns ). Regarding existing modules: I propose to reduce them by connecting packages from one pattern to another. Here, as for me, it would be very useful to revise the patterns: * patterns-gnome-gnome * patterns-gnome-gnome_basic * patterns-gnome-gnome_basis * patterns-gnome-gnome_basis_opt Namely : - change the name of the pattern "GNOME Desktop Environment (Wayland)" to just "GNOME Desktop Environment" or "Full GNOME Desktop Environment", adding the wayland package to the default base distribution. Judging by the spec file on OBS, the "gnome" pattern doesn't do much, just delivers the wayland package to everything (judging by the Recommends section). How about adding this package to "gnome_basic" and then renaming it to "gnome"? - reduce the number of patterns suggested above. For example, I think it's quite possible to add gnome_basis_opt to gnome_basic, since the only thing it recommends is "dynamic-wallpaper-branding-openSUSE" (which, by the way, I did not find in the repositories on fresh TW) The rest of the templates, in general, I see no reason to correct. They answer to their names and would obviously be useful to someone. Regarding defaults: In general, I suspected that you were moving away from the "upstream" vision of the GNOME set. Now got an official answer :) Then, in general, if the basic GNOME patterns are simplified (eg, as per my suggestions above), this should give users more confidence in customizing their installation. And finally: how about enabling the default GNOME wallpaper pack (without changing the default wallpaper, of course)? Thank you for such high quality feedback!