2+ hour, 5+ min ago  (191+ words) The examples of just how bad Apple's GUI design has become keep on coming, though. This time it's Howard Oakley showing once again how baffling the macOS UI is these days. At this point, it's clear that Apple's inability to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (466+ words) The release 25.11 wraps up our year of "rigidity, clarity, performance" with a bouquet of vast under-the-hood improvements. Genode's custom kernel received special tuning of its new CPU scheduler for Sculpt-OS workloads, and became much more scalable with respect to virtual-memory…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (705+ words) For those of us unaware " unlikely on OSNews, but still " for a hot minute in the second half of the "90s, Apple licensed its Mac OS to OEMs, resulting in officially sanctioned Mac clones from a variety of companies. While intended…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (240+ words) On the new'MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple has mandated that all application icons fit into their prescribed'squircle. No longer can icons have distinct shapes, nor even any fun frame-breaking accessories. Should an icon be so foolish as to try to have a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (516+ words) In the light of this year's'roadmap'focus on "rigidity, clarity, performance, Sculpt OS 25.10 looks the same as the version 25.04 but might feel different as it includes countless under-the-hood improvements of the two preceding framework releases'25.05'and'25.08. User interaction on performance-starved platforms…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (578+ words) I think most of us are aware that compositors use multiple planes to render our user interfaces, and in the case of KDE's Kwin specifically, they use two planes " one for the user interface, and one specifically for the mouse…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (257+ words) Apple's new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here's how to control its effects and make your interface more usable. Although the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (494+ words) The LineageOS project has released version 23 of their AOSP-based Android variant. LineageOS 23 is based on the initial release of Android 16 " so not the QPR1 release that came later " because Google has not made the source code for that release available yet....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (438+ words) With iOS 26, Apple seems to be leaning harder into visual design and decorative UI effects " but at what cost to usability? At first glance, the system looks fluid and modern. But try to use it, and soon those shimmering surfaces…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (187+ words) It's release day for all of Apple's operating systems, so if you're fully or only partway into the ecosystem, you've got some upgrades ahead of you. Version 26 for macOS, iOS and iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and HomePod Software have all…...