What is the best way to install blender on Fedora?

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in terms of update and performance what is the best way to install blender on Fedora? shall I install it using the official fedora repository in the software app, or using snap (one of the official installation methods present on the official blender website)? because the snap version is slightly more up to date( now on 8th December 2023) on snap there is the version 4.0.2 and in the official fedora repository there is the 4.0.1. but I don’t know which is better and if the snap package is slower or not

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Snap is not endorsed by the Fedora Project. Fedora Linux uses flatpak for containerized apps.

snap will be slower than native rpm, but maybe newer version
flatpak is available on Blender | Flathub (currently 4.0.2).
native rpm package will be faster but maybe lagging a bit behind the newest upstream.

you can install both flatpak and rpm (or even all three) and decide then which one you like best.

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I have been using the flatpak for several years now, it’s fairly quick to update to the latest release. If you need hardware support for cycles and you have AMD gpu, you will need to go through a couple things to get the AMD proprietary drivers installed to get that working properly. If you eventually need help with that there are resources available.

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I see that blender 4.0.1 RPM is built for fedora.
I would use rpm that over snap or flatpack.

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I understand, I use the flatpak because . . .“When an update drops, the botbuild on github gets the build going”