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		butokai on July 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after seve... There's another comment below that mentions Unity 8, which has been forked and is being maintained as a mobile shell. Is that the same QML Unity you're mentioning? I remember they were going for some kind of convergence.

lproven on July 4, 2022 [–]

No.

The Qt-based Unity was called Unity2D. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity2D

It was dropped when LLVMpipe rendering made OpenGL fast enough to be usable on machines without 3D hardware:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE2MTQ

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