How to install Blender manually in Linux

My method of installing:

New Installation Method

Below is the new method that I use to install Blender.

Go to the website of Blender and download it.
Once downloaded, go to the download folder and unzip the Blender.
Copy the unzipped Blender folder into a directory in your .local folder. For example to ~/.local/share/blender.
Create a blender.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications.

Assuming that your Blender folder is in ~/.local/share/blender, with a text editor or VSCode type these into the blender.desktop.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Blender
GenericName=3D Modeler
Comment=3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
Keywords=3d;modeling;rendering;
Exec=/home/garohypr/.local/share/blender/blender
Icon=/home/garohypr/.local/share/blender/blender.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu=true
Categories=Graphics;3DGraphics;
MimeType=application/x-blender;

If you followed these steps correctly, Blender should appear in your app launcher after completing all those steps.

Type the full path to the Blender folder

Note that you may need to write the full path of your app folder, in the .desktop file, instead of the relative path. So you may have to write /home/username/../blender instead of ~/../blender

Other method of installing:

Old way of installing

Below is the old way of installing Blender that I had learned on internet. But lately, I prefer the way above. In case if you are interested, I am keeping this method as well.

Here is how I installed Blender from their website :

Download the archive : https://www.blender.org/download/
Extract it to /opt :

sudo mkdir -p /opt/blender    
sudo tar -xf blender-3.1.2-linux-x64.tar.xz -C /opt/blender --strip 1

Copy the "blender.desktop" to "~/.local/share/applications"
Edit the "Exec" line of the Desktop file like this :

Old :

Exec=blender %f

New :

Exec=/opt/blender/blender %f

This is it! OBSERVE WHERE I PLACED BLENDER ON MY VERSION ON LEGION

Ask me if you have any question! :)