Going retro

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I downloaded Blender today after a long absence from the world of 3d art, installed, booted it up and then had to double take to make sure I hadn’t started up Maya. Looking through the dev logs, I can see that there are a hell of a lotta improvments that have been made, but in all honesty I lack the willpower to learn what seems to be essentially a new piece of software.

So are there any mods that can revert the UI back to the old clunky thing I know and love? Failing that, which was the latest version to still use the old UI?

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Go here and download the version for your OS

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Although it does look different it it in essence the same.
I was in the same position as you, reluctant and used 2.49b for a long time. But it took me only a few hours to be comfortable with 2.5.

These will help.
http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/
http://www.blenderguru.com/whered-that-button-go/
http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

If you cannot find anything, use search.