Why did Hyperbola remove Vulkan?
Why did Hyperbola remove Vulkan?
I'm not able to understand why Vulkan was removed from the Hyperbola project? What is not open source about this project?
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages
Use your browser search on that page and type "vulkan" and you will find the reason. I couldn't link to it any better, sorry, am on mobile rn.
I had a read through that and I don't really know what Hyperbola is but it sounds tedious.
Holy fuck yeah, you weren't exaggerating. I respect their goals and all, but this part made me chuckle:
A “computer” should be per definition a helping tool, not an energy-consumption with endless scaling
Someone should tell them that computers should be helping tools, not ideological purity tests :P
I've read that page, but that reasoning went over my head. Because I'm not able to understand their justification, hence I'm asking about it. And besides, there's no other low-level Vulkan alternative. Dropping support for it would be detrimental to the future of their distro, given how there's improvement over OpenGL with respect to performance.
Their justification is batshit for the seven dropped packages I read. I haven’t seen all of those various talking points together in a single place before. It’s a “who’s who” of every crank idea from the last couple of decades. I’m genuinely surprised they don’t drop support for themselves given their social bloat.
They don't seem to care that much about performance unless it means reduced powet consumption.
Looks like their main reasoning for dropping vulkan was: 1. it has too many dependencies, which violates their principal of minimalism, and 2. it's not backwards compatible enough for their arbitrary definition of backwards compatibility. I guess it should support hardware back to the very first gpu, but also have less dependencies
Thanks for the link, I knew hyperbola for many years from afar. Reading this gave me a lot more insight on the project. I find it very cool and pushing toward better software like GNU, openBSD and suckless.
Nothing is perfect but for server this distribution could be a nice option . I'd love to see an arm version of it. I guess RISC-V would also be a perfect match for them
Hyperbola has a strange philosophy about a lot of packages: https://web.archive.org/web/20240124002440/https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages