diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-linux.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-linux.yml
index ce0fde5e..a64cab59 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-linux.yml
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Ninja
         run: sudo apt-get install ninja-build
 
-      - name: Install n2
-        run: cargo install --git https://github.com/evmar/n2
-
       # Can't actually be used on CI runners, but we need the headers for embedding webview
       - name: Install WebKitGTK
         run: sudo apt-get install gtk+-3.0-dev webkit2gtk-4.1-dev --yes
diff --git a/unixbuild.sh b/unixbuild.sh
index 7455ebe4..89f04dc4 100755
--- a/unixbuild.sh
+++ b/unixbuild.sh
@@ -15,15 +15,7 @@ $LUAJIT_EXE ninjabuild.lua
 # LuaJIT's jit module is implemented in Lua and needs to be loaded via LUA_PATH for bytecode generation
 export LUA_PATH="$BUILD_DIR/?.lua;./?.lua"
 
-if which n2 > /dev/null; then # Using n2 speeds up local development as it has better change detection
-    BUILD_TOOL=n2
-else # Ninja works just as well and is expected to be installed in all cases (required for building deps via CMake)
-    BUILD_TOOL=ninja
-fi
-
-echo "Selected build tool: $BUILD_TOOL"
-
 # This will only work after the dependencies have been built! (Run the deps/build-X.sh scripts manually at least once)
 # The reason this is excluded from the ninja build is to eliminate propagated errors that are difficult to debug/misleading
 # It's much easier to see if the dependencies could be built independently and they don't usually need rebuilding anyway
-$BUILD_TOOL
+ninja