Should I be using Blender 2.8 instead?

[Penis Parker]

I am a complete beginner with this software and I am currently learning the very basics of it by watching a 2016 tutorial. Will it be complicated to switch from a version to another? Is the new one better? Thank you.

[Sean]

The new one is better, but it’s still in beta and there aren’t many fantastic tutorials.
From what I have noticed, most of the functionality remains the same between the versions, just sometimes in different places. I’d recommend learning the old layout with the good tutorials we have now and then when 2.8 actually comes out, learn from the tutorials for that. I’m sure there will be tutorials for switching.
Blender Guru has 3 videos on 2.8 that are worth watching too.

[Penis Parker]

Sean님이 먼저 게시:

The new one is better, but it’s still in beta and there aren’t many fantastic tutorials.
From what I have noticed, most of the functionality remains the same between the versions, just sometimes in different places. I’d recommend learning the old layout with the good tutorials we have now and then when 2.8 actually comes out, learn from the tutorials for that. I’m sure there will be tutorials for switching.
Blender Guru has 3 videos on 2.8 that are worth watching too.

I'll keep using the older verson then. Thanks for replying.

[Pte Jack]

Steam will not update versions until the newer version has been released publicly. So, if there is a newer version available but Steam doesn't have it yet, then the newer version isn't the most stable version available.

Now that being said, there can be a delay of a week to a month between an officail version being released on Blender.org and the update hitting Steam. The devs are pretty good at keeping the Steam version in sync with the most current stable, but when going through version changes there can be delays.

[Supreme Corgi]

there is a lot of cool addons to use on the 2.79 version of blender that you can use. Idk if the newer 2.8 will have some of these addons

[PyroIQ]

Sean님이 먼저 게시:

The new one is better, but it’s still in beta and there aren’t many fantastic tutorials.
From what I have noticed, most of the functionality remains the same between the versions, just sometimes in different places. I’d recommend learning the old layout with the good tutorials we have now and then when 2.8 actually comes out, learn from the tutorials for that. I’m sure there will be tutorials for switching.
Blender Guru has 3 videos on 2.8 that are worth watching too.

Not better different without the game engine.

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

Learning the basics is a worthy effort in any case. Once you get used to blender you will figure that u can keep blender versions side by side, not having to commit to any version in particular.
Especially with contract work or big projects in general it is advisable to keep the legacy version of the project around just in case new features change backwards compatibility.
Luckily blender is totally awesome for that and its a bliss to use :)