Unity 2D (Qt) In Action [Ubuntu]

First ever Unity 2D (Qt) video (Ubuntu). Unity 2D is a version of Unity that will work with any graphic card. More info and installation instructions:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/unity-...
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/2d-uni...

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[angularsofty]

Thanks for demonstrating this, Andrew. Interesting development. I wonder if many people will prefer it to regular Unity because it's faster-- even if they do have a capable graphics card.

[nilarimogard]

Unity 3D will use Compiz, which is the reason many people started to use Linux so I guess most of those with capable video cards will go with Unity 3D. But we'll see. I'm thinking a poll regarding this will be nice once Ubuntu 11.04 is out.

[Woegjiub]

They were probably just (correctly) recognising that Qt is more powerful, simpler, better supported by companies, looks nicer, and is more up-to date, as opposed to the obsolete GTK dinosaur.

[Allen Bethea]

Maybe Shuttleworth is hinting that Ubuntu may not even need Gnome in future releases?????

[judgen]

Today, two years later we know that far to few installed it from the repos to even make the effort worth it for canonical. The biggest gripe people seemed to have against it is/was that it still used gnome and gtk crap dependencies even though it was supposed to be QT based.

[Ondřej Hruška]

Maybe good for tablets, but we need more than eye-candy. I'll stay with KDE.

[Dylan Berry]

for some odd reason when i would switch to ubuntu 2d on my laptop i wouldnt load it but it would load the regular ubuntu i wonder why that is

[OZPerpetue]

I don't know in 11.04, but in 11.10 it hides automatically which is much better, have you tried it yet? Did you like it? I like it on my netbook, but on my other pc I have always used WindowMaker, so I'll stick with that.

[temporaldisplacement]

I've got 11.04 as pendrivelinux and while unity3D works on my laptop; my tower didn't support it, so I'm using unity2D. I didn't realise 11.10 was out when I downloaded 11.04, but now I've got everything set up ....I think I'll stick with 11.04. Its certainly nice to try other OS' but I'm not going to replace the pre-installed versions of VistaHB and 7Pro that my tower and laptop are running nativly.

[cgarrey]

i have been using ubuntu 2d on 11.10 (dev branch) , and it is much better than ubuntu (compiz based). It is stable and has all that i need to work without any issue ! well done ..

[djplayer93]

free version of mac os xD

[1992Greed]

Is just my impression, or Shuttleworth want a Mac-like Linux?