In Manjaro Wynsdey Blender 4.1.1 crashes (Python error: PyImport_AppendInittab)

Looks like this is because Blender 4.1 is built against Python 3.11, but Manjaro now ships with Python 3.12 - the blender download on the site will include python 3.11 directly.

There’s recent discussion around patching Blender in the Arch package to resolve this: Blender 4.1.1 crash on creating fluid sim domain (#18) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / blender · GitLab

See also: Use suggested upstream Python version (#1) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / blender · GitLab, including a note of a user (recently) creating a blender-bin AUR package that pulls in its own python version