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At the time of writing Mint has version 4.0. The just released version is a much later 5.1 with lots of improvements. Flatpak has version 5.0. Surely the Flatpak version could be included. Until then folks download it from Blender, extract it to a folder and run it. No permissions issues. it just works. And Mint, please, update the ancient screenshot. You must be putting folk off even trying it. I gave it 3 stars because v4 is OK compared to v5
annoyingly outdated, the current release is from over 2 years ago. Have to download from the website with workarounds. But decent I guess
For some reasson version 4.0.2 can no longer import/export Collada files (.dae). Though the manual say it can! https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.0/files/import_export/collada.html Now removing it from my system and looking for a version 3 that can handle Collada!
Despite this version being old as the dinos my computer is older still with no SSE42 support and so the software does not launch.
I'm not a 3D artist, but after installing this program out of curiosity, I wanted to become one :-). Absolutely amazing. I'm working through the available video tutorials and it's incredibly addictive. The version from the repository is indeed older than the one currently supported by the authors, but it works flawlessly and is absolutely sufficient and powerful for a beginner.
Why is this not up to date? Who maintains this? Why is the example picture so old?
Thank you Blender Team - for creating and maintaining this life changing application! Using purely Linux for the last 3 years and to have a program like Blender available to me is just amazing - I'm truly grateful. I mainly use the video editing sector of Blender and it does everything I need. It's intuitive and it's easy to remember a new skill once I've learnt it from the web. The screenshot image above is old - the latest version is modern and looks nothing like the above. Thank you to all who contribute to Blender - you give many an opportunity to create! I'm running Blender on a refurbished 6-7 year old computer (32GB ram, stock standard graphics spec) and it's been perfect. There are many ways to download/install it, choose which works for you!
As of this time of wrting (5/26/2025) this version of blender is not the latest. Had to install it from Blender. because Renders would not be displayed even with the proper Nvidia drivers installed. The software itself is fantastic and load quicker than its Windows counterpart. It has come a long way. I wish that people could donate to keep this amaizing software running.
This version (4.02) is outdated since the current version is 4.4. Also this version crashes and does run...
This version is outdated. Downloading from the official blender website is better
Useless. I've downloaded and installed, but get a grey panel then it immediately crashes. No Google search helped and no questions to the forum helped.
Blender is a great animation program. I'm only giving it a 3 because this package is over 8 months out of date. I am not a programmer, so it took me hours to install the new version. Please update!
It works fine, I can't use the flatpak version because my CPU is old, so I'm glad this version exists and it's easy to install.
So for those here who commented that Blender should be up to date, let me explain why it remains on a specific version for a while just like the other packages in APT. Linux mint is based on Debian. So the packages are only updated as soon as a new release of Linux Mint is available. The packages in APT are only updated only when a new release of Linux Mint is available. The packages will remain in their versions if Linux Mint is not upgraded.
Outdated, outdated, outdated. ... But than again, relying on volunteering thirst-parties to do this seems a flawed system. As such there will probably never be a LTS version (until it has become outdated) that is not relying on some alternative & additional installed semi-OS like Snap or FlatPak. (Total freedom always turns into total chaos).
The software is awesome but need to keep it up to date with the original website.
My most used software, could do with updating more often on here, Also, is there a way I can submit a new screenshot, the current one is from the 1990s.