Give it a shot. In practice, it's not complicated. Double-clicking a file leads directly to the player window bypassing the playlist/media library. If you laun

Give it a shot. In practice, it's not complicated. Double-clicking a file leads directly to the player window bypassing the playlist/media library. If you launch VLC by itself, it opens that window and that window is really just a playlist with other options at the side. Honestly, try it. It's just like the old VLC but with a cleaned up interface. There are zero new features, everything you see in that screenshot would show up if you drag the corner of the controller out, albeit with a somewhat different UI. Now it just shows up by default. As someone who basically only uses the player window and the playlist on occasion, I'm happy. They cleaned up the two most important and commonly used aspects of VLC.