Except VLC 13 years ago is still far more user friendly than Darktable today.
Also, oranges are better than apples. Another unfair comparison.
The UI features and functionality of a video player is a lot simpler than something like Darktable or Lightroom.
… You just said it would be a fair comparison if we gave Darktable 13 years, and now that I’ve basically given you that comparison by simply going back 13 years and comparing VLC then with Darktable now, you’re moving the goalposts and saying "actually you can’t compare the two at all because they’re different software". So… which is it?
No one’s disputing that the UI of a video player is simpler than photo editing software-- the point though is that among video players, VLC is king because it’s so user friendly. Devs work around user requests/feedback, while Darktable’s approach is "the users can work around how we think the program should work".
Again, I just find it interesting that you started off by saying one can compare VLC with Darktable, but only if we give Darktable 13 years to have the same amount of development time as VLC-- but when we basically achieve that by comparing VLC’s user friendliness 13 years ago to Darktable’s user friendliness today, suddenly it’s not a fair comparison anymore because… new reasons.
You’re misunderstanding what I was saying. You gave the example of VLC being a superior open source video player, compared to other video players. I pointed out that VLC has been in development for a lot longer, so has had a lot of time to become as loved as it is. It wasn’t embraced in the earlier years of its existence the same way it is today.
Once Darktable has been in development for longer, then it can be compared the same way, not to VLC, but to other photo management software.
