Need Help with running Blender on Old Thinkpad

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@AwwsmGaurav

I have been running Blender on old hardware below stated specs for years

Then your machine must clearly meet the minimum requirements.

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Anecdotal:- I just installed blender 17:4.5.3 from the official Manjaro repository in a VM – approximately 2GB with dependencies – and it seems to install and run without issue.

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Another possible option is to build a binary package (blender-bin) via the AUR; this one in particular seems consisantly updated:

AUR (en) - blender-bin

pamac build blender-bin

Regards.

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Of course the usual warnings apply:

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