I agree it's rough, but your experience isn't completely typical either. Fallback Renderer works for me on Ubuntu 18 (and everyone on my team with various diffe

I agree it's rough, but your experience isn't completely typical either. Fallback Renderer works for me on Ubuntu 18 (and everyone on my team with various different Linux flavours). Pre-compilation shouldn't trigger all the time, and there is an explicit workflow page about how to avoid constantly triggering the need to restart Julia and JIT everything. It reduced my amount of cursing tremendously. The ecosystem has improved loads since 1.0 came out but is still lacking in some corners. The pay off for us has been worth it, but with so much outdated information out there, the tooling in a rough-around-the-edges state, and the documentation of core packages sometimes lacking it's also not something you can easily dip your toes into unfortunately.