{"id":289100,"date":"2026-07-13T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/i-tested-cosmics-new-frosted-glass-effect-and-its-way-better-than-macos-liquid-glass\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:05:09","slug":"i-tested-cosmics-new-frosted-glass-effect-and-its-way-better-than-macos-liquid-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/i-tested-cosmics-new-frosted-glass-effect-and-its-way-better-than-macos-liquid-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"I tested COSMIC&#8217;s new Frosted Glass effect, and it&#8217;s way better than MacOS&#8217; Liquid Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-linux-liquid-glass\/\">I tested COSMIC&#8217;s new Frosted Glass effect, and it&#8217;s way better than MacOS&#8217; Liquid Glass<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-linux-liquid-glass\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-linux-liquid-glass\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 16:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>COSMIC desktop has unleashed Frosted Glass.<\/li>\n<li>This effect is what Apple&#8217;s Liquid Glass should have been.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone running Pop!_OS can enjoy this new look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you think about which desktop has the most beautiful UI, MacOS is probably the first one that comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a Linux user, you&#8217;d know better, thanks to KDE Plasma &#8212; which is gradually catching up to what Apple has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>But then, you might also know about what&#8217;s been cooking in the metaphorical labs at System76. Back in 2024, the company announced it was working on something called Frosted Glass. When I first heard about it, I&#8217;ll admit I was moderately excited. After all, what System76 has done with COSMIC in such a short amount of time is mind-blowing. This relatively new Linux desktop environment (built from the ground up with Rust) has come a long way very quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: &#8216;I&#8217;m not a programmer&#8217; anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize was just how amazing Frosted Glass would turn out to be. In fact, I&#8217;ll just state this here and now: COSMIC&#8217;s Frosted Glass is what I thought MacOS&#8217;s Liquid Glass was supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Frosted Glass is gorgeous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve talked about how any number of Linux desktop environments could take the title of the most beautiful on the market. Well, that all changed the second I upgraded COSMIC and enabled Frosted Glass. Now, every desktop environment has taken a back seat to COSMIC.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the tables have turned. System76 has upped the ante so far that I cannot imagine another desktop environment catching up to COSMIC. \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>What is Frosted Glass?<\/h2>\n<p>The new Frosted Glass feature in COSMIC desktop adds an elegantly soft, blurred transparency to windows and various UI components. If you&#8217;ve ever seen the blurred background effect used in login screens, the Android App Drawer, or certain menus in MacOS, you&#8217;ll know what I&#8217;m talking about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: I&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-linux-liquid-glass\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested COSMIC&#8217;s new Frosted Glass effect, and it&#8217;s way better than MacOS&#8217; Liquid Glass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/cd95fe3539d87053ffe6dcd5bc4b598ad2d49342\/2026\/07\/13\/cdd8ae77-cfad-45b9-ab34-f4f828c59829\/frostedhero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-289100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289102,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289100\/revisions\/289102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}