During a recent talk at the FOSDEM conference, VLC‘s lead developer gave us a sneak peek at changes coming to the open source, cross-platform media player in the coming year. Under the hood VLC 4.0 ...

VLC's interface is ugly and dated and overcomplicated for the vast majority of use cases. The new player looks excellent and more like a modern media player while still retaining all of the core VLC ...

I kept VLC installed, but I stopped opening it.

As someone who appreciates VLC for its utility but mildly dislikes its clunky, old fashioned and inflexible user interface, I was excited to see there was a new UI coming. Be careful what you wish for ...