JacketedSpud

The original article (https://www.lowpass.cc/p/vlc-five-billion-downloads-vision-pro-app) states

The app surpassed three billion downloads in early 2019

so there has been at least 2 billion downloads in the last 5 years. Also,

The latest version of VLC, which was released in November, has already been downloaded more than 335 million times by desktop users alone.

It’s the icons that look ugly IMO. If they used monochrome icons in the header bars then I think it’d be the best looking Linux desktop.