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What engineering leaders and their teams report about Linear, with every finding tied to its evidence.

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What the evidence says

Whose sources count

Practitioner sentiment, leaders and teams

+41 Positive from 103 sources that take a side

How this figure is made

Positive overall signal, net 41 points

From 99 authors in 82 discussions. Run a pilot with one team to measure how much of its planning and writing stays in the tool after a month.

Analyzed
314 total sources
Top praise
Delegating Issues to Agents (30 of 48 sources) See praise evidence
Top concern
Reporting & Portfolio Views (12 of 13 sources) See concern evidence

Jan 2025 to Oct 2026.

298 sources from practitioners, by month and sentiment.

Of the 136 team and leader accounts, 28 give no opinion of Linear itself, and five records tied to Linear, among them a talk by its Head of Engineering, are listed without counting. Speed draws praise in 14 of 15 accounts. Teams that hand issues to coding agents use Linear as the agents' work queue, and critics say agents create duplicates or ignore templates over MCP. Planning visibility splits 14 of 28. Leaders who report from Linear miss hour logging and the dashboards the Business plan lacks. Teams comparing the trackers favor Linear 15 to 5.

Positive, mixed and negative sources

The score counts them as 54 positive, 32 mixed and 13 negative votes, one per author. See How the numbers work.

See the evidence

Below: 5 praise themes, 3 concerns, 3 close to agreement and 1 disagreement.

Findings

Counted for Engineering leaders and teams, from 136 sources. Change group

What practitioners praise

Every capability practitioners describe positively, ranked by how many sources say so. Open one to read who said it.

  1. Delegating Issues to Agents30 of 48 sources on it praise itAssigning issues to Cursor, Codex, Devin, GitHub Copilot, or Linear Agent, with agents reading and updating Linear through MCP.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Positive, 30

    1. Mixed

      Aaron Tainter, WorkOS engineer

      Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission?Engineering talk, YouTube

      WorkOS engineer Aaron Tainter uses Linear as one of the controlled systems in an agent workflow and shows policy checks that deny or route risky actions for approval.

      "Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission? - Aaron Tainter | init() 2026…"
      Excerpt, Aaron Tainter

      Published Oct 23, 2026self-described: WorkOS authorization workflow using Linear with Snowflake, Stripe, and Gmail

    2. Positive

      superjose, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMsHacker News comment

      A developer has an AI agent create tickets on the team's Linear board and says resulting PRs are more detailed and easier to understand.

      Published Sep 26, 2026self-described: Team using Linear, Metabase and Datadog

    3. Positive

      GinjaNinja71, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: A year of Claude Code alongside Hermes and Codex: the problem isn't the coding, it's the 12 tasks every session leaves behindReddit comment (r/ClaudeCode)

      Has Claude file follow-up tasks into the ops team's Linear in an Ask stage and close them when done, which kept better than a shared markdown file.

      Published Sep 17, 2026self-described: Architect working mostly in .NET

    4. Positive

      rednix, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Who else fucking hates Linear?Reddit comment (r/Linear)

      The team uses Linear together and the author has agents sort and make sense of its issues, which works really well.

      Published Aug 25, 2026self-described: Team using Linear

    5. Positive

      Jcrossfit, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: How do you organize PRDs for agentic development?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      The team keeps PRDs and issues in Linear and has Claude work from them through the MCP, valuing cross-repository scope and a UI for hand edits.

      Published Jul 20, 2026self-described: Organization using Claude Code for development

    6. Positive

      Shashank Singla, Niptao

      An engineer you manage from a group chatEngineering blog post, Niptao blog

      A four-person company runs a Claude Code loop that uses Linear over MCP as its work queue, state machine, and memory, and reports two merged root-cause fixes on day one.

      Published Jun 10, 2026self-described: Niptao, four-person group; Claude Code loop working Linear tickets through MCP

    7. Positive

      0xbadcafebee, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?Hacker News comment

      A developer recommends giving AI agents a ticketing system to plan and persist work, and uses Linear for that at work.

      Published Jun 5, 2026self-described: Uses Linear at work with OpenCode and MCP servers

    8. Positive

      NotARedditUser3, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Cloud Agents are impressive, but what tasks are you actually trusting them with?Reddit comment (r/cursor)

      The team triggers Cursor cloud agents from Linear tickets to build features into draft pull requests with screenshots and recordings, so nobody needs to run the code locally.

      Published Jun 4, 2026self-described: Team using cloud agents for PR review

    9. Positive

      Hassan_W, Reddit commenter, self-described

      Comment on: +50k spent in the past 6 months - I can tackle your questionsReddit comment (r/cursor)

      In-app feedback flows through the team's backend into Linear, which opens the branch and PR automatically, a loop the author says saves much time.

      Published May 10, 2026

    10. No opinion stated

      fy20, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60BHacker News comment

      A company of about 25 engineers has Cursor cloud agents pre-process its Linear tickets before people triage them. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Apr 22, 2026self-described: Company of about 25 engineers running Cursor cloud agents on its Linear tickets

    11. Positive

      komokasi, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)

      An engineer on the team built agent skills that write documentation in Linear, break up tasks and implement them, and the commenter enjoys using them daily.

      Published Mar 28, 2026self-described: Team with an engineer using Linear skills

    12. Positive

      Ido Shamun, daily.dev

      How we built a Linear coding agent: the hard partsEngineering blog post, daily.dev

      daily.dev built Huginn, an agent inside Linear that turns a delegated ticket into a plan and pull requests, and says its bug and feedback backlog shrank sharply. Linear archiving agent threads wiped the plan field, so it keeps state in labels.

      Published Mar 23, 2026daily.dev engineering, which logs bugs, feedback, and feature work in Linear and built Huginn, an in-house agent on Linear's Agent API

    13. Positive

      clintonb, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?Hacker News comment

      An engineer built a bridge from Linear to the company's Coder installation so colleagues can assign Linear work to a Claude Code agent.

      Published Mar 16, 2026self-described: Company running Coder.com and Linear

    14. Positive

      anObscurity, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone successfully using Automations for Slack-to-PR workflows yet?Reddit comment (r/cursor)

      The team files tickets through the Linear agent in Slack and assigns them to Cursor agents, preferring Linear in the middle as the source of truth.

      Published Mar 9, 2026self-described: Team using Linear and Cursor agents

    15. Positive

      mmaskani, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Cloud agents + AI code review have completely changed how our team ships bug fixes (Slack → Linear → Cursor → GitHub → merged in <1 hour)Reddit comment (r/cursor)

      Bug reports go from Slack to a Linear ticket that Linear drafts well, then to a Cursor agent, AI review and human review before merge.

      Published Mar 7, 2026self-described: Startup CTO

    16. Positive

      maebert, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClawHacker News comment

      A team runs a shared OpenClaw agent that reads what shipped in GitHub and Linear to run standups and summarize untracked work each morning.

      Published Feb 25, 2026self-described: Team running a shared OpenClaw agent in group chat

    17. Positive

      lord_braleigh, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone automating the gap between Linear tickets and actual implementation?Reddit comment (r/ExperiencedDevs)

      The team assigns Linear tickets to Cursor cloud agents, which start from the team's own image snapshot, do the work and open a pull request.

      Published Feb 16, 2026self-described: Team using Linear Agents and Cursor Cloud Agents

    18. No opinion stated

      Nick Crum, Fullscript Engineering

      So We Built Our Own Agentic Developer…and then the CEO shipped a featureEngineering blog post, Fullscript Builder's Corner

      Fullscript engineers assign Linear issues to Nitro, an in-house agent that opens pull requests; it works best on scoped tasks and struggles with ambiguous ones. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Feb 3, 2026self-described: Fullscript engineering, Linear for issues and self-hosted GitLab for code, with an in-house agent called Nitro

    19. Positive

      Additional-Mark8967, Reddit poster

      My Claude Code'd App just hit 1750 users, here's how I did it:Reddit post (r/ClaudeCode)

      Works with a product manager through Linear and pulls the PM's feedback into the app via Claude Code's Linear MCP.

      Published Jan 28, 2026self-described: AI SEO content generator with 1750 users

    20. Positive

      ImaginationInFocus, Reddit poster

      Using AI to capture ideas from customer callsReddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      The team built an agent that turns customer-call insights into code and Agent-labeled Linear tickets; it shipped three small improvements in its first week.

      Published Jan 14, 2026self-described: Team building an AI agent for customer calls

    21. No opinion stated

      megalomanu, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus farHacker News comment

      A small team set up Claude Code so that opening a pull request fetches or creates the Linear ticket, asks what was tested, and requests reviewers. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jan 7, 2026self-described: Small team that wired Claude Code into its pull request flow through a shared CLAUDE.md

    22. Positive

      lijok, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Hacker News comment (parent story removed)Hacker News comment

      When Linear released its agents support, the commenter's engineers simply offloaded simpler tickets to GitHub Copilot.

      Published Dec 31, 2025self-described: Engineering team learning to orchestrate agents on Bedrock

    23. Positive

      Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify

      Embedding Agents in Linear with Dana LawsonConference talk, YouTube

      Netlify CTO Dana Lawson presents an agent built into Linear and argues that useful AI should live inside the workflow where teams already work.

      "Embedding Agents in Linear with Dana Lawson…"
      Excerpt, Dana Lawson

      Published Dec 8, 2025Netlify CTO presenting an agent embedded in Linear at Lisbon AI

    24. Positive

      clintonb, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: What if you don't need MCP at all?Hacker News comment

      An engineer prefers Linear's remote MCP server because Claude gets Linear access after one sign-in, and the team shares it by committing the config.

      Published Nov 16, 2025self-described: Team sharing MCP config in the repository

    25. Positive

      phoenixmatrix, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: how many more AI dev tools are we going to get?Reddit comment (r/cursor)

      On a Linear and Notion team, labeling a Linear ticket sends Devin off to work; complex tasks still need finishing by hand, but it saves time.

      Published Jun 26, 2025self-described: Team on Linear and Notion, hands labeled tickets to an AI agent

    26. Positive

      iddan, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment

      A team lets PMs assign work to the Xander agent from Linear comments, then check the resulting pull request in a deployed environment before engineers review it.

      Published Jun 25, 2025self-described: Team with PMs and engineers using the Xander agent

    27. Positive

      Nate Kohari, building Theseus; previously staff engineer at Stripe and CTO at Kevel

      Linear's proven really useful as a store of state for agentsX post

      A former Stripe staff engineer says his team reads Linear less than before and uses it as stored state for agents: one agent files issues and another works them.

      Published Oct 24, 2026self-described: His current team, where agents file Linear issues for other agents to pick up

    28. Mixed

      Xiaofei Du, oversaw development for a team of about 10

      We stopped paying for LinearPersonal blog post, xiaofeidu.com

      Loved Linear's UI, yet the ten-person team's backlog bloated and sprints overflowed; once work was managed through the Linear MCP server the UI stopped mattering and they moved to GitHub issues.

      Published Aug 17, 2026self-described: Ten-person team with one PM and one designer; later a two-person project

    29. Positive

      Emma Burrows, former Stripe UK CTO and CEO of Rezonant

      How to build a product team OS with Emma BurrowsLeadership webinar, YouTube

      Former Stripe UK CTO Emma Burrows describes a product operating system that keeps organizational context fresh by connecting sources including Linear, while retaining human judgment for product decisions.

      "How to build a product team OS with Emma Burrows (ex Stripe UK CTO)…"
      Excerpt, Emma Burrows

      Published Jul 6, 2026Product-team operating system drawing on Linear and other work sources

    30. Positive

      Garrett Galow, WorkOS engineer

      Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business?Conference talk, YouTube

      WorkOS engineer Garrett Galow describes an internal workspace that answers business questions against Linear and other systems, with validation before generated queries become reusable widgets.

      "Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business? Garrett Galow, WorkOS…"
      Excerpt, Garrett Galow

      Published Jun 11, 2026self-described: WorkOS internal workspace querying Linear, Snowflake, and Notion

    Mixed or negative, 18

    1. No opinion stated

      MaxAndreassen, GitHub issue author

      Linear Codex integration not working.GitHub issue on openai/codex

      When the team delegates through the Codex Linear plugin, Codex starts the task but never reports back, and Linear always shows the agent as not started. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Sep 24, 2026self-described: Fractional product engineer

    2. Mixed

      0xbadcafebee, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: AI usage patterns in software teamsHacker News comment

      An engineer building AI pipelines for their team does that work outside Linear's AI features and expects automation to make Linear's interface replaceable.

      Published Aug 19, 2026self-described: Team adopting AI code pipelines with guardrails

    3. No opinion stated

      olivierbelhumeur-vlabs, GitHub issue author

      Issues and Project Templates access when creating with MCPGitHub issue on linear/linear

      The team creates most issues through coding agents but cannot get them to use Linear templates via MCP, so it duplicates templates in the repository. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 18, 2026self-described: Team creating issues mostly through coding agents and Claude Desktop

    4. Negative

      SnooDogs5688, Reddit poster and former startup founder

      As a small team, I just think small teams don't need PM SaaS tools anymoreReddit post and the author's reply (r/agile)

      A former founder's 10-person team loved Linear's UI but stopped opening it once agents managed tickets over MCP; in the agent era they would not use Linear again.

      Published Aug 18, 2026self-described: Startup of about 10 on Linear; now a two-person team on GitHub issues

    5. No opinion stated

      jamesboncek-sqldbm, GitHub issue author

      [Feature Request] Expose Loops (recurring agent jobs) via GraphQL API & MCPGitHub issue on linear/linear

      The team manages its Linear workspace as code, but Linear Agent Loops can only be configured in the UI, leaving recurring agent jobs outside review and audit. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 10, 2026self-described: Workspace managed as infrastructure-as-code over the GraphQL API

    6. Mixed

      jmuguy, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settingsHacker News comment

      A developer does not use Cursor Cloud Agents because they cannot connect to the company's Linear workspace.

      Published Jun 30, 2026self-described: Company Linear workspace; Cursor user

    7. Mixed

      Perfect_Tangerine432, Reddit poster

      solving communication between teammates' agentsReddit post (r/ClaudeCode)

      The team shares Linear across members' agents, but many agent-to-agent handoffs are too small for a ticket, so they forward messages by hand.

      Published Jun 14, 2026self-described: Team using shared Linear

    8. Mixed

      theshrike79, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: I still prefer MCP over skillsHacker News comment

      A developer says Linear's MCP, like other vendors', cannot be scoped below full user access, which blocks approval where legal requires hard limits.

      Published Apr 10, 2026self-described: Company where legal reviews MCP connections

    9. Mixed

      V_Ster, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: With Linear becoming more prevalent in the product world, what becomes the new purpose for product managers?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Just moved to Linear. An AI automation created four GitLab branches for a senior developer and closed them with no changes, which the commenter calls teething issues, and scoping tickets becomes the main job.

      Published Apr 8, 2026self-described: Company that had just moved to Linear, with GitLab

    10. Mixed

      trcarney, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Are you team MCP or team CLI?Hacker News comment

      A developer has agents use Linear's GraphQL API and skip its MCP server, since the workplace's defined workflow makes the full MCP a waste of context.

      Published Mar 31, 2026self-described: Workplace with its own defined Linear workflow

    11. Mixed

      CowChicken23, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)

      The team's Claude-to-Linear task pipeline worked when it worked, but the MCP created duplicate tasks and lost track of phases, so specs moved back into the repo.

      Published Mar 28, 2026self-described: Team using Claude and Linear MCP

    12. Mixed

      SteveZedFounder, Reddit poster and startup founder

      Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit post (r/startups)

      At their startup the co-founder stopped using Linear and tracks issues in the agents' repo, and small bugs now go from Claude spec to fix without touching Linear.

      Published Mar 27, 2026self-described: Early-stage startup using Claude and Codex with a coordinator repository

    13. No opinion stated

      stepandel, GitHub issue author

      No way to distinguish @mention-triggered from assignment-triggered AgentSessionEvent webhooksGitHub issue on linear/linear

      Building a Linear agent app, the author cannot tell assignment-triggered from mention-triggered agent sessions in webhooks and relies on a fragile string check. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Mar 19, 2026self-described: Builds an agent app on Linear's agent session webhooks

    14. Mixed

      Eyoba_19, Reddit poster

      Anyone automating the gap between Linear tickets and actual implementation?Reddit post and the author's reply (r/ExperiencedDevs)

      Codex pulling Linear issue specs worked well but ran from the terminal, so they built an agent the team assigns Linear tickets to like a teammate.

      Published Feb 16, 2026self-described: Team with a backlog of well-scoped tickets left idle

    15. Mixed

      johndoerayme1, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Has anyone actually tried Devin before?Reddit comment (r/cursor)

      Early Devin adoption on a Linear team often failed to clear backlog work, and with no built-in Linear integration they maintained their own, eroding the value.

      Published Oct 18, 2025self-described: Company using Devin

    16. No opinion stated

      Senseifc, Reddit poster, self-described

      Anyone here successfully working with Cursor agents and Linear?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      The team tried assigning Linear tickets to Cursor background agents, but the agent refused to switch to the specified branch, so small UI fixes stalled. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Oct 9, 2025

    17. No opinion stated

      arnoopt, Reddit poster

      Use Claude Code as AgentReddit post (r/Linear)

      Wanted to delegate first-pass bug fixes from the team's Linear to Claude Code, but only Cursor agents were first class and the Claude plugin was hard to set up. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 22, 2025self-described: Team on a Linear project, wants Claude Code on a laptop to fix team bugs

    18. Mixed

      AchintyaAshok, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Rethinking CLI interfaces for AIHacker News comment

      A builder of an MCP add-on reports that agents using Linear's MCP predictably fail to create issues without guidance on project selection and description format.

      Published Jul 19, 2025self-described: Building toolprint.ai, an MCP guidance layer; self-promotional context

    GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources

    Checked Oct 12, 2026.Installed agents receive issues by assignment or mention and are not billable seats. Linear Agent's coding sessions run Claude Code or Codex in a cloud environment and draw on prepaid AI credits; there is no per-user control over who spends them. AI credits

    Open them in the record
  2. Speed & Keyboard-First UI14 of 15 sources on it praise itWhether Linear is fast and clear enough in daily use that people keep issues current, or slow and confusing.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Positive, 14

    1. Positive

      dankons, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boardsHacker News comment

      A small team left Jira for Linear about two years ago over Jira's slowness and does not want to go back.

      Published Apr 26, 2026self-described: Small team that moved from Jira about two years earlier

    2. Positive

      arzmir, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Everything's a bug (or an issue)Hacker News comment

      Their 5 to 6 developer greenfield team is very happy with Linear's user experience, and it ties well into GitHub and other tools such as Notion.

      Published May 22, 2025self-described: Small greenfield project with 5 to 6 developers

    3. Negative

      SnooDogs5688, Reddit poster and former startup founder

      As a small team, I just think small teams don't need PM SaaS tools anymoreReddit post and the author's reply (r/agile)

      A former founder's 10-person team loved Linear's UI but stopped opening it once agents managed tickets over MCP; in the agent era they would not use Linear again.

      Published Aug 18, 2026self-described: Startup of about 10 on Linear; now a two-person team on GitHub issues

    4. Mixed

      Xiaofei Du, oversaw development for a team of about 10

      We stopped paying for LinearPersonal blog post, xiaofeidu.com

      Loved Linear's UI, yet the ten-person team's backlog bloated and sprints overflowed; once work was managed through the Linear MCP server the UI stopped mattering and they moved to GitHub issues.

      Published Aug 17, 2026self-described: Ten-person team with one PM and one designer; later a two-person project

    5. Negative

      Venthe, Reddit commenter, self-described

      Comment on: Looking for a sprint planning tool that doesn't suckReddit comment (r/agile)

      After recently switching from Jira, the team finds Linear worse in almost every respect except its speed.

      Published Oct 28, 2025

    6. Positive

      Economy_List5060, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Moved engineering sprints from Jira and Asana to Linear for cleaner boards and faster navigation; adoption was smooth, though they keep monday dev for cross-team visibility.

      Published Sep 29, 2025self-described: Team that moved engineering sprints from Jira and Asana to Linear

    7. Mixed

      brushali, Product manager of an AI product team

      Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      Six months after moving a six-person AI product team from Jira, the UI is fast and the team uses it without complaint. Advanced reporting is missing, integrations are thinner, and cost rose 40%.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: AI product team of 6, moved from Jira six months earlier

    8. Mixed

      betasridhar, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their team switched and finds Linear smoother day to day, but Jira had deeper reports; fine for a small team, painful for a big organization.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Team that switched from Jira

    9. Positive

      Standard-Feed-9260, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their small startup moved from ClickUp to Linear, which strikes the right balance of features and speed; Jira would be bloated for them.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Small startup team that moved from ClickUp

    10. Mixed

      Jacob Beckerman, co-founder and CEO of Macro

      Our startup's journey from Notion to LinearX article (long-form post)

      Macro's CEO reports that his engineers moved the 18-person startup from Notion to Linear on their own. He rates it faster than Notion and probably better than Jira, yet the board still falls out of date while planning lives in docs and Slack.

      Published Feb 22, 2025self-described: Macro, an 18-person startup whose engineers moved its tickets from Notion to Linear

    11. Negative

      previaegg, Chief product officer at a fast-growing startup

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      A CPO ran Linear for two years, then moved the entire operation to Jira: it is pleasant for engineers working tickets but ignores product people and others not assigned tickets.

      Published Feb 7, 2025self-described: Started a new team on Linear, then moved the whole operation to Jira after two years

    12. Positive

      praying4exitz, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their team chose Linear for its design, speed, and opinionated workflows; Jira and Asana offered so many options that customizing them became work about the work.

      Published Feb 7, 2025self-described: Team that chose Linear over Jira and Asana

    13. Positive

      FlowRadiant3102, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their previous organization moved from Jira to Linear for easier management, a friendlier UX, and less clutter.

      Published Feb 6, 2025self-described: Previous organization moved from Jira to Linear

    14. Positive

      Reza Khosravi, Co-founder at Galliot

      Phasing Out from JIRACompany blog post, Galliot

      Galliot's co-founder says the agency moved from Jira to Linear in late 2024, engineers took to its shortcuts, and it now recommends Linear to small and medium client teams.

      Published Jan 11, 2025self-described: Galliot, a software agency that moved its teams from Jira to Linear in the second half of 2024

    Mixed or negative, 1

    1. Mixed

      roastedtuna, Reddit poster

      Anyone else having trouble with the UI?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      Months after the team moved from ClickUp, the author still finds Linear's monochrome UI hard to read.

      Published Mar 11, 2026self-described: Team that switched from ClickUp to Linear

    Open them in the record
  3. Planning & Progress Visibility14 of 28 sources on it praise itHow cycles, projects, initiatives, and updates show leaders where work stands.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Positive, 14

    1. Positive

      kops212, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      At the commenter's company product leadership manages initiatives and pre-delivery project stages in Linear, and filters let everyone see only their part of a shared backlog.

      Published Oct 2, 2026self-described: Company where product leadership owns initiatives in Linear

    2. Positive

      davy_jones_locket, Reddit commenter, self-described

      Comment on: When something fails, how do you figure out what engineering work is actually affected?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)

      The team plans work up front in Linear and writes dependencies into tickets, so affected work is known when something fails.

      Published Aug 9, 2026

    3. Positive

      Aromatic-Fee2651, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: How do you track when a feature that spans multiple tickets is actually ready to test?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)

      After moving to Linear the team treats each feature as a project with milestones and a lead, which makes readiness visible when done properly.

      Published Jul 15, 2026self-described: Team using Linear

    4. Positive

      Emma Burrows, former Stripe UK CTO and CEO of Rezonant

      How to build a product team OS with Emma BurrowsLeadership webinar, YouTube

      Former Stripe UK CTO Emma Burrows describes a product operating system that keeps organizational context fresh by connecting sources including Linear, while retaining human judgment for product decisions.

      "How to build a product team OS with Emma Burrows (ex Stripe UK CTO)…"
      Excerpt, Emma Burrows

      Published Jul 6, 2026Product-team operating system drawing on Linear and other work sources

    5. Mixed

      david_chisnall, Lobsters commenter

      Comment on: Which GitHub features are needed in a code forge before you can migrate?Lobsters comment

      His team is starting on Linear because GitHub Projects cannot track issues across public and private repositories or give planning views, though he would prefer a free alternative.

      Published Jul 1, 2026self-described: Team on GitHub issues and Projects with public and private repositories

    6. Positive

      Much-Guidance-8560, Reddit commenter managing several teams

      Comment on: Atlassian is killing Opsgenie and the JSM migration path nearly broke my team's on-call process.Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)

      A manager moved their teams from Jira and JSM to Linear and Linear Asks in early 2026; documenting tasks got easier and reporting became simpler and transparent.

      Published Mar 30, 2026self-described: Teams moved from Jira and Jira Service Management to Linear and Linear Asks in Q1 2026

    7. Mixed

      CowChicken23, Reddit commenter, self-described

      Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)

      Working without Linear, the team misses its visual blocking dependencies most; their markdown substitute is nowhere near as clean.

      Published Mar 28, 2026

    8. Positive

      Michael Sukkarieh, Sourcebot

      How we reached bug zero using LinearEngineering blog post, Sourcebot blog

      Sourcebot runs a zero-bug policy in Linear: GitHub issues become labeled Linear bugs automatically, priority-based SLAs of 2 and 7 days apply, and dashboards track progress weekly.

      Published Feb 19, 2026self-described: Sourcebot, open source startup after YC

    9. Positive

      Valuable_Word_8310, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?Reddit comment (r/Linear)

      With 30 members on Linear, things are fine so far, and custom views track work and performance.

      Published Oct 8, 2025self-described: Team of 30 Linear members

    10. Positive

      Commercial_West_8337, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Best way to handle handoffs between different functions?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      After leaving Atlassian, the PM runs each major item as a Linear project holding all documentation, with developers owning milestone issues and stakeholders getting weekly updates.

      Published Aug 25, 2025self-described: Product manager with an engineering team, moved from Atlassian to Linear

    11. Positive

      not_you_again53, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Our company's systems are a mess of disconnected tools , how do i implement this flow ?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)

      At a previous company with seven tracking systems, they chose Linear over Jira as the single source of truth because it handled product roadmapping better, piloting with one team.

      Published Aug 17, 2025self-described: Previous company consolidating seven work-tracking systems, piloted with one team

    12. Positive

      Qllervo, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Has anyone else been using Height.app? It's shutting down - what are you moving to?Reddit comment (r/projectmanagement)

      After Height shut down the team moved to Linear and finds it far superior, citing timeline views and Linear Asks linking Slack and email to tickets.

      Published Aug 7, 2025self-described: Height user from 2021, switched to Linear in 2025

    13. Positive

      Brian Casel, SaaS founder

      How I use Linear to manage my SaaSVideo, YouTube

      A founder working with two developers and a support person runs roadmap, bugs, and features in Linear and reads each issue's checklist to see progress without asking his developer.

      Published Apr 14, 2025self-described: SaaS product run with two developers and one support person, moved from GitHub Issues to Linear

    14. Positive

      sneakysalesman, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      For the commenter's organization the main gain is communication: a Slack channel per project fed by Linear webhooks gives non-technical stakeholders full visibility.

      Published Sep 13, 2025self-described: Organization broadcasting Linear updates to per-project Slack channels

    Mixed or negative, 14

    1. No opinion stated

      Relative-Calendar162, Reddit poster leading a Linear rollout to about 90 people

      The best roadmapping tool for LinearReddit post and the author's reply (r/Linear)

      Rolling Linear out to about 90 people, with four groups keeping roadmaps in it, they need an external roadmap tool so commercial teams can follow without seats. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 20, 2026self-described: Organization of about 90 onboarding Linear, four roadmap-owning groups

    2. Mixed

      Xiaofei Du, oversaw development for a team of about 10

      We stopped paying for LinearPersonal blog post, xiaofeidu.com

      Loved Linear's UI, yet the ten-person team's backlog bloated and sprints overflowed; once work was managed through the Linear MCP server the UI stopped mattering and they moved to GitHub issues.

      Published Aug 17, 2026self-described: Ten-person team with one PM and one designer; later a two-person project

    3. No opinion stated

      blubrry-pie, Reddit poster

      How do you delegate work?Reddit post (r/EngineeringManagers)

      An engineering manager keeps Linear projects with milestones and dates visible company-wide, yet the CEO still feels they lack visibility and wants finer task breakdowns. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jul 23, 2026self-described: Early-stage startup building an enterprise app handling sensitive PII

    4. Mixed

      Rob Koch, remark.ing author

      Linear is always a lagging indicatorHacker News post

      An engineer argues Linear used by higher-ups as a visibility tool is a lagging indicator, since a well-written ticket is nearly done once agents handle implementation.

      Published Jul 12, 2026self-described: Engineer in an organization where leadership uses Linear for visibility; submitted to Hacker News

    5. Mixed

      Zealousideal-Can8362, Reddit poster, self-described

      How do you keep external clients updated without giving them workspace access?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      The team loves Linear internally, but clients cannot follow progress; view access confused them, so status updates stay manual and slip when cycles get busy.

      Published Jun 30, 2026

    6. Negative

      davidbun, Reddit poster leading engineering after their head of engineering left

      I stopped asking my engineers for status updates. I just read their agent traces now.Reddit post (r/EngineeringManagers)

      After losing their head of engineering they moved from Jira to Linear hoping it would fix a failing process; it did not, and they still chased status by hand.

      Published Apr 16, 2026self-described: Company with senior engineers across time zones, all using Claude Code; moved from Jira to Linear

    7. No opinion stated

      dui-sellpy, GitHub issue author

      [Feature Request] - Filter on project membersGitHub issue on linear/linear

      As the team moved more work into projects it missed a project-member filter in the sidebar views it uses for standups; Linear pointed to the main filters. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Feb 2, 2026self-described: Team using projects and current-cycle views for standups

    8. Mixed

      Less-Sentence-1723, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: For those using Linear, what are you guys using for product prioritization/planning?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Moving the team from Atlassian to Linear lost the Jira Product Discovery link, so product prioritization now runs in a separate tool integrated with Linear.

      Published Jan 20, 2026self-described: Team switched from Atlassian to Linear

    9. No opinion stated

      Varunram Ganesh, founder of Trylapis (YC F25)

      I forced our team to stop creating tickets (on Linear in our case)X post

      Trylapis's founder stopped the team from creating Linear tickets and moved coordination to Slack, and reports pull request shipping speed up 250% with the same number of new bugs. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jan 8, 2026self-described: Trylapis, a YC startup team that stopped filing Linear tickets and coordinates on Slack

    10. Mixed

      Motor_Association493, Reddit poster

      Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      Past four or five developers, the team spends standups working out who does what, tickets stall, and it needs better visibility into what gets done.

      Published Oct 8, 2025self-described: Small dev team

    11. Mixed

      leonardfactory, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?Reddit comment (r/Linear)

      The team built its own Windmill automations to keep GitHub and Linear in sync and get a better view of team progress.

      Published Oct 8, 2025self-described: Small growing team

    12. Mixed

      Olofadell, Reddit poster

      Why are milestones inside projects and not initiatives?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      The team follows the Linear Method's short projects, but milestones live only inside projects, so the timeline cannot show milestones spanning several projects.

      Published Aug 29, 2025self-described: Team runs 1-3 week projects with 1-3 people

    13. Mixed

      IdeoREX, Reddit poster

      I'm planning cycles wrong and I want to improveReddit post (r/Linear)

      Six months in, an eight-engineer team likes Linear except cycle planning; no saved view shows per-engineer points and assignments, so they plan in a side project.

      Published May 30, 2025self-described: Engineering team of 8 SWEs on Linear for 6 months

    14. Mixed

      Jacob Beckerman, co-founder and CEO of Macro

      Our startup's journey from Notion to LinearX article (long-form post)

      Macro's CEO reports that his engineers moved the 18-person startup from Notion to Linear on their own. He rates it faster than Notion and probably better than Jira, yet the board still falls out of date while planning lives in docs and Slack.

      Published Feb 22, 2025self-described: Macro, an 18-person startup whose engineers moved its tickets from Notion to Linear

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  4. GitHub, Slack & MCP Integrations11 of 15 sources on it praise itBranch and pull request links that move issue status, Slack intake, the API, and the MCP server that agents use.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Positive, 11

    1. Positive

      Garrett Galow, WorkOS engineer

      Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business?Conference talk, YouTube

      WorkOS engineer Garrett Galow describes an internal workspace that answers business questions against Linear and other systems, with validation before generated queries become reusable widgets.

      "Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business? Garrett Galow, WorkOS…"
      Excerpt, Garrett Galow

      Published Jun 11, 2026self-described: WorkOS internal workspace querying Linear, Snowflake, and Notion

    2. Positive

      Akshay Chugh, product lead at Coinbase India

      Our team finally let go of the last few tickets on Jira and completely moved to LinearX post

      A Coinbase India product lead says the team closed its last Jira tickets and moved fully to Linear, and calls the Slack agent integration a piece of art.

      Published Mar 5, 2026self-described: Coinbase India product team, after finishing its move from Jira

    3. No opinion stated

      heyshowshana, GitHub issue author

      [Feature request] Pull Request Reviews for (self-hosted) GitLabGitHub issue on linear/linear

      A team on self-hosted GitLab praises Linear's pull request reviews on GitHub and asks for the same on GitLab merge requests. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Feb 11, 2026self-described: Team on a self-hosted GitLab instance

    4. No opinion stated

      Brett Beutell and Nele Uhlemann, Fiberplane

      The Linear Team Made a Good MCPIndependent evaluation, Fiberplane blog

      Fiberplane measured Linear's MCP server in Claude Code: its 23 tools raised context use from 61k to 78k tokens, 17.3k of it tool definitions. The authors rate its task-oriented design highly and ask for leaner output. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Nov 4, 2025self-described: Fiberplane's analysis of Linear's MCP server, measured in Claude Code and the MCP Inspector

    5. Positive

      sneakysalesman, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      For the commenter's organization the main gain is communication: a Slack channel per project fed by Linear webhooks gives non-technical stakeholders full visibility.

      Published Sep 13, 2025self-described: Organization broadcasting Linear updates to per-project Slack channels

    6. Positive

      arzmir, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Everything's a bug (or an issue)Hacker News comment

      Their 5 to 6 developer greenfield team is very happy with Linear's user experience, and it ties well into GitHub and other tools such as Notion.

      Published May 22, 2025self-described: Small greenfield project with 5 to 6 developers

    7. Positive

      Shashank Singla, Niptao

      An engineer you manage from a group chatEngineering blog post, Niptao blog

      A four-person company runs a Claude Code loop that uses Linear over MCP as its work queue, state machine, and memory, and reports two merged root-cause fixes on day one.

      Published Jun 10, 2026self-described: Niptao, four-person group; Claude Code loop working Linear tickets through MCP

    8. Positive

      Michael Sukkarieh, Sourcebot

      How we reached bug zero using LinearEngineering blog post, Sourcebot blog

      Sourcebot runs a zero-bug policy in Linear: GitHub issues become labeled Linear bugs automatically, priority-based SLAs of 2 and 7 days apply, and dashboards track progress weekly.

      Published Feb 19, 2026self-described: Sourcebot, open source startup after YC

    9. Positive

      CydeSwype, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Linear's reports and saved issue filters are limited, so the commenter built custom ones on the API. The team, many of them former Jira users, loves Linear because its opinions make it harder to misconfigure.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Team with many developers who used Jira before

    10. Positive

      Qllervo, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Has anyone else been using Height.app? It's shutting down - what are you moving to?Reddit comment (r/projectmanagement)

      After Height shut down the team moved to Linear and finds it far superior, citing timeline views and Linear Asks linking Slack and email to tickets.

      Published Aug 7, 2025self-described: Height user from 2021, switched to Linear in 2025

    11. Positive

      vishnu97, Reddit poster

      Any tool recommendations for dynamic resource planning?Reddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      The startup loves Linear for sprints and GitHub sync, but planning hires needs a portfolio view of projects and headcount that it looks for elsewhere.

      Published Jan 3, 2025self-described: Startup using Linear for sprints, synced with GitHub, planning to hire

    Mixed or negative, 4

    1. No opinion stated

      gcb2018, GitHub issue author

      [Feature Request] - Multiple JIRA syncs in 1 workspace?GitHub issue on linear/linear

      The team wants to work in Linear between two partners on separate Jira instances, but Linear syncs one Jira instance per workspace and has no plan to change. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jan 28, 2026self-described: Team working between two third parties that each run Jira

    2. Positive

      Ido Shamun, daily.dev

      How we built a Linear coding agent: the hard partsEngineering blog post, daily.dev

      daily.dev built Huginn, an agent inside Linear that turns a delegated ticket into a plan and pull requests, and says its bug and feedback backlog shrank sharply. Linear archiving agent threads wiped the plan field, so it keeps state in labels.

      Published Mar 23, 2026daily.dev engineering, which logs bugs, feedback, and feature work in Linear and built Huginn, an in-house agent on Linear's Agent API

    3. Mixed

      brushali, Product manager of an AI product team

      Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      Six months after moving a six-person AI product team from Jira, the UI is fast and the team uses it without complaint. Advanced reporting is missing, integrations are thinner, and cost rose 40%.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: AI product team of 6, moved from Jira six months earlier

    4. Mixed

      Jacob Beckerman, co-founder and CEO of Macro

      Our startup's journey from Notion to LinearX article (long-form post)

      Macro's CEO reports that his engineers moved the 18-person startup from Notion to Linear on their own. He rates it faster than Notion and probably better than Jira, yet the board still falls out of date while planning lives in docs and Slack.

      Published Feb 22, 2025self-described: Macro, an 18-person startup whose engineers moved its tickets from Notion to Linear

    GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources

    Checked Oct 12, 2026.Linking a pull request or commit to an issue automates the issue's status as the pull request moves. GitHub Issues can be synced to a Linear team going forward; historical GitHub issues need the importer. GitHub

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  5. Opinionated Defaults8 of 17 sources on it praise itWhether Triage, cycles, and the Linear Method reduce process work or constrain the team.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Positive, 8

    1. Positive

      nihal_was_here, Reddit poster, self-described

      Designing human-agent engineering teamsReddit post (r/EngineeringManagers)

      Reports great success using Linear for ticket triage alongside Claude Code for pull requests, while the team's harder problem is adapting rituals to AI agents.

      Published Mar 5, 2026

    2. Mixed

      Jumpy-Evidence-5766, Reddit poster managing boards across five teams

      Forgot to stop sprint in Jira, now our reports are completely messed upReddit post and the author's reply (r/agile)

      After 18 months on Linear the company moved to Jira because Linear could not handle many projects and releases at scale, though the author misses auto-completing cycles.

      Published Nov 20, 2025self-described: Company that moved from Linear to Jira; author runs five team boards

    3. Mixed

      abbazabba75, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their company moved from Notion to Linear, which is built for running sprints, but triage, projects, and tickets are still a chore the commenter would rather hand to someone else.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Company of about 60 that moved from Notion to Linear

    4. Mixed

      Olofadell, Reddit poster

      Why are milestones inside projects and not initiatives?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      The team follows the Linear Method's short projects, but milestones live only inside projects, so the timeline cannot show milestones spanning several projects.

      Published Aug 29, 2025self-described: Team runs 1-3 week projects with 1-3 people

    5. Positive

      Equivalent_Story6605, Reddit commenter who moved a startup's development department

      Comment on: Is Everything Fine with Jira?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Having introduced Jira at a startup two years earlier, they moved the development department to Linear this year because Jira is painful to configure; no regrets.

      Published Aug 22, 2025self-described: Startup that adopted Jira two years earlier, then moved development to Linear

    6. Positive

      praying4exitz, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their team chose Linear for its design, speed, and opinionated workflows; Jira and Asana offered so many options that customizing them became work about the work.

      Published Feb 7, 2025self-described: Team that chose Linear over Jira and Asana

    7. Positive

      Michael Sukkarieh, Sourcebot

      How we reached bug zero using LinearEngineering blog post, Sourcebot blog

      Sourcebot runs a zero-bug policy in Linear: GitHub issues become labeled Linear bugs automatically, priority-based SLAs of 2 and 7 days apply, and dashboards track progress weekly.

      Published Feb 19, 2026self-described: Sourcebot, open source startup after YC

    8. Positive

      CydeSwype, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Linear's reports and saved issue filters are limited, so the commenter built custom ones on the API. The team, many of them former Jira users, loves Linear because its opinions make it harder to misconfigure.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Team with many developers who used Jira before

    Mixed or negative, 9

    1. No opinion stated

      No-Calligrapher-2421, Reddit poster

      Using Linear for waterfall projects with fixed start and go-live dates: how are you structuring it?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      The team tracks development in Linear but runs fixed-date waterfall deployments, and finds Linear built for agile, unsure projects and target dates hold up. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 25, 2026self-described: Team running waterfall deployment projects

    2. Negative

      EscalateToHuman, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: What did your team outgrow in Linear?Reddit comment (r/Linear)

      Asked what the team outgrew in Linear, answers the lack of custom fields: they need their own workflow, and Linear's does not fit.

      Published Aug 1, 2026self-described: Team using Linear

    3. No opinion stated

      xidi11, Reddit poster

      Question about projects and linking issuesReddit post (r/Linear)

      Following the Linear Method's finite projects, an enterprise product team has nowhere good to keep postponed nice-to-have issues once a project must be completed. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jul 28, 2026self-described: Enterprise product team

    4. Negative

      obiefernandez, Hacker News commenter

      Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadHacker News comment

      ZAR dropped Linear for a homegrown experiment-tracking system; the commenter says working from a backlog is counterproductive and prioritization should rest on empirical data.

      Published Mar 24, 2026self-described: ZAR product engineering, which replaced Linear with a homegrown experiment-tracking system

    5. Negative

      focustools, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: How many project management tools did you try before finding the right PM software for your team?Reddit comment (r/projectmanagement)

      The team left Linear because its insistence on cycles clashed with planning tasks around days and weeks.

      Published Sep 3, 2025self-described: Team that plans tasks by days and weeks

    6. Mixed

      Fc81jk-Gcj, Reddit poster

      why do you like it?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      After a merger moved the company from Jira to Linear, work Jira automated now means clicking through labels by hand.

      Published Sep 1, 2025self-described: Company merged with another, switched from Jira to Linear

    7. No opinion stated

      paltium, Reddit poster

      Struggling to map ICE scoring to Linear's priority propertyReddit post (r/Linear)

      Migrating its roadmap from Notion, the small team finds Linear's fixed priority field too blunt for its ICE scoring. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jun 20, 2025self-described: Small team moving roadmap from Notion to Linear

    8. Mixed

      ravishqureshi, GitHub issue author scaling engineering and product

      Amp up the stone age-esque automation of LinearGitHub issue on linear/linear

      A former Jira user scaling engineering and product at a new org on Linear finds its workflow automation basic and the tool limiting as the org grows.

      Published Feb 18, 2025self-described: New org on Linear; author is a long-time Jira and Confluence user

    9. Mixed

      Icy-Victory9882, Reddit poster

      Constant linear issuesReddit post (r/Linear)

      The team loves Linear, but long issues roll from cycle to cycle, and it is unsure every issue can be split to fit a cycle.

      Published Feb 6, 2025self-described: Team using Linear cycles for a few months

    GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources

    Checked Oct 12, 2026.Cycles are a per-team setting turned on under Team Settings; when enabled, Linear creates upcoming cycles automatically and rolls unfinished work forward. Cycles

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What concerns them

Every concern practitioners raise, most raised first.

  1. Reporting & Portfolio Views12 of 13 sources on it raise it as a concernReports, dashboards, history, and cross-team views that leaders relied on in Jira or need as the organization grows.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Raised as a concern, 12

    1. No opinion stated

      Capital-Barnacle2255, Reddit poster

      Insights are useless unless you upgrade to Enterprise?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      On the Business plan, the team needs dashboards because filtered issue lists fall short, and dashboards are Enterprise-only. After learning Insights work on those lists, they still plan to upgrade. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jan 5, 2026self-described: Team on the Linear Business plan

    2. No opinion stated

      UnableGreen3328, Reddit poster

      Time Tracking in LinearReddit post (r/Linear)

      The team must log hours per issue, split between non-profit and for-profit work, for IRS compliance and asks how to record actual hours in Linear. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Nov 27, 2025self-described: Team doing nonprofit and for-profit work

    3. Mixed

      Jumpy-Evidence-5766, Reddit poster managing boards across five teams

      Forgot to stop sprint in Jira, now our reports are completely messed upReddit post and the author's reply (r/agile)

      After 18 months on Linear the company moved to Jira because Linear could not handle many projects and releases at scale, though the author misses auto-completing cycles.

      Published Nov 20, 2025self-described: Company that moved from Linear to Jira; author runs five team boards

    4. Mixed

      Mecheter, Reddit poster

      Still Using Linear? Curious - Has Linear Fixed These 3 Things Yet? (Or Are We Still Patching Them With Workarounds?)Reddit post (r/Linear)

      After 18 months on Linear, now running client work for an agency, the author still patches release tracking, hour logging and docs with other tools.

      Published Nov 7, 2025self-described: Dev agency managing client work

    5. No opinion stated

      kleri3, Reddit poster

      How to Create Visual Reports in Linear/from Linear?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      Needs visual reports on estimates, progress, velocity and capacity, but the company's Business plan lacks Linear's Enterprise dashboards. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Nov 4, 2025self-described: Company on Linear Business plan

    6. Mixed

      brushali, Product manager of an AI product team

      Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      Six months after moving a six-person AI product team from Jira, the UI is fast and the team uses it without complaint. Advanced reporting is missing, integrations are thinner, and cost rose 40%.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: AI product team of 6, moved from Jira six months earlier

    7. Mixed

      betasridhar, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their team switched and finds Linear smoother day to day, but Jira had deeper reports; fine for a small team, painful for a big organization.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Team that switched from Jira

    8. No opinion stated

      Senseifc, Reddit poster

      How do you account for PTOs when planning your cycles?Reddit post (r/Linear)

      Asks how to mark a team's capacity for time off in Linear so cycle metrics are not skewed; for now the team adjusts expectations by hand. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 19, 2025self-described: Team running sprint cycles in Linear

    9. Mixed

      IdeoREX, Reddit poster

      I'm planning cycles wrong and I want to improveReddit post (r/Linear)

      Six months in, an eight-engineer team likes Linear except cycle planning; no saved view shows per-engineer points and assignments, so they plan in a side project.

      Published May 30, 2025self-described: Engineering team of 8 SWEs on Linear for 6 months

    10. Positive

      vishnu97, Reddit poster

      Any tool recommendations for dynamic resource planning?Reddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      The startup loves Linear for sprints and GitHub sync, but planning hires needs a portfolio view of projects and headcount that it looks for elsewhere.

      Published Jan 3, 2025self-described: Startup using Linear for sprints, synced with GitHub, planning to hire

    11. Positive

      Economy_List5060, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Moved engineering sprints from Jira and Asana to Linear for cleaner boards and faster navigation; adoption was smooth, though they keep monday dev for cross-team visibility.

      Published Sep 29, 2025self-described: Team that moved engineering sprints from Jira and Asana to Linear

    12. Positive

      CydeSwype, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Linear's reports and saved issue filters are limited, so the commenter built custom ones on the API. The team, many of them former Jira users, loves Linear because its opinions make it harder to misconfigure.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Team with many developers who used Jira before

    Discussed without concern, 1

    1. Positive

      Much-Guidance-8560, Reddit commenter managing several teams

      Comment on: Atlassian is killing Opsgenie and the JSM migration path nearly broke my team's on-call process.Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)

      A manager moved their teams from Jira and JSM to Linear and Linear Asks in early 2026; documenting tasks got easier and reporting became simpler and transparent.

      Published Mar 30, 2026self-described: Teams moved from Jira and Jira Service Management to Linear and Linear Asks in Q1 2026

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  2. Less Customization Than Jira6 of 8 sources on it raise it as a concernMissing custom workflows, fields, issue types, or permissions that teams relied on in Jira.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Raised as a concern, 6

    1. No opinion stated

      urielpr, Reddit poster

      Custom fields in Linear, to integrate into WorkatoReddit post (r/Linear)

      Replacing Jira, the organization could not find where to add workspace-level custom fields in Linear to sync from Salesforce through Workato. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jul 27, 2026self-described: Organization using Enterprise Plan

    2. Negative

      Torsta, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their company tried Linear, but engineering would not leave Jira for something so locked down compared with Jira's customization.

      Published Oct 4, 2026self-described: Company whose engineering team stayed on Jira

    3. Negative

      EscalateToHuman, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: What did your team outgrow in Linear?Reddit comment (r/Linear)

      Asked what the team outgrew in Linear, answers the lack of custom fields: they need their own workflow, and Linear's does not fit.

      Published Aug 1, 2026self-described: Team using Linear

    4. No opinion stated

      paltium, Reddit poster

      Struggling to map ICE scoring to Linear's priority propertyReddit post (r/Linear)

      Migrating its roadmap from Notion, the small team finds Linear's fixed priority field too blunt for its ICE scoring. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Jun 20, 2025self-described: Small team moving roadmap from Notion to Linear

    5. Mixed

      ravishqureshi, GitHub issue author scaling engineering and product

      Amp up the stone age-esque automation of LinearGitHub issue on linear/linear

      A former Jira user scaling engineering and product at a new org on Linear finds its workflow automation basic and the tool limiting as the org grows.

      Published Feb 18, 2025self-described: New org on Linear; author is a long-time Jira and Confluence user

    6. Positive

      ASHLEYakaASHLEY, Product manager, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their engineers love Linear and the product manager finds it more intuitive across the organization than Asana, though they miss a personal task arrangement separate from the shared one.

      Published Feb 6, 2025self-described: Current company on Linear after Asana at a previous one

    Discussed without concern, 2

    1. Mixed

      Aaron Tainter, WorkOS engineer

      Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission?Engineering talk, YouTube

      WorkOS engineer Aaron Tainter uses Linear as one of the controlled systems in an agent workflow and shows policy checks that deny or route risky actions for approval.

      "Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission? - Aaron Tainter | init() 2026…"
      Excerpt, Aaron Tainter

      Published Oct 23, 2026self-described: WorkOS authorization workflow using Linear with Snowflake, Stripe, and Gmail

    2. Positive

      HustlinInTheHall, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their team uses Linear exclusively after leaving Jira; it lacks easy documentation, which Claude artifacts now cover for them.

      Published Oct 2, 2026self-described: Team using Linear exclusively after leaving Jira

    GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources

    Checked Oct 12, 2026.Linear's Jira documentation lists issue types, constraints, components, and required fields as Jira features Linear has chosen not to pursue. Components arrive as labels, and required fields block synced issue creation. Jira

    Open them in the record
  3. Fit Outside Engineering5 of 10 sources on it raise it as a concernWhether product, design, marketing, sales, and other stakeholders can plan and follow work in Linear, or are left out of it.

    Counted for Engineering leaders and teams.

    Raised as a concern, 5

    1. Negative

      localsonlynokooks, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: 10 years in corporate, moving to a startup, need a new PM toolReddit comment (r/projectmanagement)

      Linear was forced on the agency's PMO and does not fit agency work, though the author would use it for a startup product team until it could afford Jira.

      Published Aug 13, 2026self-described: PM at an agency

    2. Negative

      WolfgangBob, Startup co-founder, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Runs a 20-person startup that needs backlogs for design, marketing, and sales as well as development; Linear was only OK, and the company stopped using it for Google Docs.

      Published Sep 12, 2025self-described: Startup of about 20 with dev, design, marketing, and soon sales teams

    3. No opinion stated

      Swimming_Hunt9739, Head of product at a funded startup

      Head of Product: drowning in Linear + Slack + Figma + HubSpot… how do you keep a single thread of truth?Reddit post (r/ProductManagement)

      A head of product treats Linear as engineering's source of truth in theory, but decisions made in Slack, Figma, and the CRM stay scattered and never reach a single record. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 21, 2025self-described: Startup with Linear for engineering and decisions spread across Slack, Figma, and HubSpot

    4. Negative

      previaegg, Chief product officer at a fast-growing startup

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      A CPO ran Linear for two years, then moved the entire operation to Jira: it is pleasant for engineers working tickets but ignores product people and others not assigned tickets.

      Published Feb 7, 2025self-described: Started a new team on Linear, then moved the whole operation to Jira after two years

    5. Negative

      cosmic-creative, Reddit commenter, self-described

      Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosReddit comment (r/devops)

      After a year and a half on Linear their team has never had a good experience and they would rather use Jira, perhaps because product owners expect Jira.

      Published Nov 20, 2025

    Discussed without concern, 5

    1. Positive

      jecs321, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Productboard is a lot of work - what would you keep?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      The team canceled Productboard and keeps product feedback in Linear, tagging feedback into the engineering team's projects.

      Published Dec 26, 2025self-described: Engineering team using Linear

    2. Positive

      kops212, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      At the commenter's company product leadership manages initiatives and pre-delivery project stages in Linear, and filters let everyone see only their part of a shared backlog.

      Published Oct 2, 2026self-described: Company where product leadership owns initiatives in Linear

    3. No opinion stated

      Relative-Calendar162, Reddit poster leading a Linear rollout to about 90 people

      The best roadmapping tool for LinearReddit post and the author's reply (r/Linear)

      Rolling Linear out to about 90 people, with four groups keeping roadmaps in it, they need an external roadmap tool so commercial teams can follow without seats. It does not judge Linear overall.

      Published Aug 20, 2026self-described: Organization of about 90 onboarding Linear, four roadmap-owning groups

    4. Positive

      sneakysalesman, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      For the commenter's organization the main gain is communication: a Slack channel per project fed by Linear webhooks gives non-technical stakeholders full visibility.

      Published Sep 13, 2025self-described: Organization broadcasting Linear updates to per-project Slack channels

    5. Positive

      ASHLEYakaASHLEY, Product manager, Reddit commenter

      Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)

      Their engineers love Linear and the product manager finds it more intuitive across the organization than Asana, though they miss a personal task arrangement separate from the shared one.

      Published Feb 6, 2025self-described: Current company on Linear after Asana at a previous one

    Open them in the record

Where the evidence agrees

Statements this group's sources agree on, then the ones close to agreement.

Close to agreement: each needs 28 supporting sources

  1. Below threshold

    When coding agents pick up work from Linear, the issue becomes the specification, so scope, constraints, and acceptance criteria decide the result.

    19 supporting sources
  2. Below threshold

    Linear fits software teams and growing companies best. Organizations with many departments and processes find Jira's flexibility harder to give up.

    9 supporting sources
  3. Below threshold

    Teams that switch report engineers keep using Linear and do not ask to go back.

    8 supporting sources, 1 contradicting

Where it disagrees

Questions the sources split on, with the count on each side.

  • Most sources favor Linear

    Is Linear a better tracker than Jira for your team?

    • Linear, 15 sources

      Switched from Jira or prefer Linear for speed, less configuration, and engineers keeping issues current.

    • Jira, 5 sources

      Prefer Jira, or saw an employer go back to it, for flexibility, process modeling, and a richer feature set.

The evidence

Whose experience this is

The three groups, then every practitioner by the context they work in, and how emphasis changes with scale.

Three groups drawn from the same sources. Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. Signals open on Engineering leaders and teams.

  • Engineering leaders and teams

    136 sources. Leaders' and teams' accounts cover why teams moved to Linear, how they hand issues to coding agents, what leaders miss when they report from it, and what made some teams go back.

  • Individual developers

    162 sources. Developers' accounts follow daily speed, reliability, Jira trade-offs, and the ways they connect Linear to coding agents.

  • All practitioners

    298 sources. Together these accounts give the broadest read. They mix teams that chose Linear with individual commenters, many of whom did not choose the tool they use at work.

298 sources from practitioners, by the context they work in. Filled rows count for this group.

  1. Individual practitionerIndividual developers and commenters, including those using Linear at work162 sources

    Emphasizes Speed, reliability, and flexibility

  2. Very small team2 to 10 people or a small startup team100 sources, counted here

    Emphasizes Agent handoff, planning views, and reporting gaps

  3. Professional team11 to 50 people, or a named company team15 sources, counted here

    Emphasizes Sprints and reporting as headcount grows

  4. Technical leadershipLeaders deciding adoption across teams18 sources, counted here

    Emphasizes Fit for product, design, and sales teams

  5. Organization-wideA rollout across a whole company or organization, by the source's own account3 sources, counted here

    Emphasizes Planned or finished company-wide moves to Linear

What changes with scale. Individual developers focus on speed, sync, and agent handoff. Team and leader accounts, most of them from Reddit, praise the same speed and split on agent handoff and planning views. They raise reporting, time tracking, and cross-team views as the work Linear leaves to them.

Where the sources come from

Where this group's sources were published.

Counted for Engineering leaders and teams, from 136 sources. Change group

152 sources for this group, 16 of them documentation

  • Developer Communities119, 78% of 152 sources
  • Product Documentation16, 11% of 152 sources
  • Talks & Videos9, 6% of 152 sources
  • Engineering Blogs & Reviews8, 5% of 152 sources

Older evidence stays when it still applies. Sources that describe gaps Linear's current documentation covers remain marked Needs a recheck.

See sources by origin

The record

Who each source is, how it knows, whether it still applies and what it counts toward.

About this read

What changed, and how we count

What changed

  • Nov 1, 2026: the Oct 30 and Oct 31 entries were each figured without the other's changes, the record changes on the weighted second view and one vote per author on the records before them. Read together, leaders and teams move from +46 to +41, individual developers stay at +53 and all practitioners move from +50 to +48.
  • Oct 31, 2026: lists James Reggio's post and Chintan Turakhia's talk without counting them, because Linear features Brex and Coinbase in its own customer stories. Leaders and teams move from +49 to +46 and all practitioners from +51 to +50; individual developers stay at +53.
  • Oct 30, 2026: each author now counts once, with their latest view, by the owner's decision; the older weighted reading stays as a second view under Method. Leaders and teams move from +49 to +43 and all practitioners from +51 to +49; individual developers stay at +53.
  • Oct 28, 2026: the Hub adds Operator Insights from GILD's research ledger: ZAR's move off Linear, and daily.dev, Niptao and CreatorSignal running coding agents from Linear tickets, three of them with quotes checked against their sources. Its Jira and GitHub Issues comparisons now name Oscar Health, Brex and Automattic's moves to Linear. The Signals sources and scores are unchanged.
  • Oct 28, 2026: lists three records without counting them. Tom Moor's talk is by Linear's Head of Engineering, the RudderStack session was published on Linear's own YouTube channel, and the Jellyfish session was a partner event co-presented by Jellyfish's head of partnerships. Leaders and teams move from +52 to +49 and all practitioners from +53 to +51; individual developers stay at +53.
  • Oct 25, 2026: the weighting then counted accounts GILD matched to a named person three times when GILD listed the author as a technical leader and twice otherwise. The headline now counts one vote per author, and that weighted reading shows as a second view under Method. The same day, 28 sources join the record. They come from X, company and personal blogs, an independent evaluation of the MCP server, and GitHub issues. Morgan Linton, Bold Metrics' CTO, joins Chintan Turakhia among the accounts that counted three times, and James Reggio, Brex's CTO, joined them on Oct 26. Sources rise from 118 to 136 for leaders and teams, from 145 to 162 for individual developers, and from 263 to 298 across all accounts. With both changes, leaders and teams move from +41 to +52 and all practitioners from +46 to +53, now Strong Positive; individual developers move from +51 to +53. Weighting alone moves leaders and teams to +43 and all practitioners to +47. Reddit falls from 44.1% to 38.9% of sources.
  • Oct 24, 2026: added 163 accounts from a search for evidence on delegating issues to agents, planning visibility, reporting, and opinionated defaults, critical and mixed accounts included. Leaders and teams grow from 24 to 118 sources, and their score moves from +42 to +41. Individual developers grow from 76 to 145 and move from +37 to +51. All practitioners grow from 100 to 263 and move from +38 to +46. Bug reports, questions and feature requests with no view of Linear now count only on their findings, leaving 48 sources out of the score, 7 from earlier rounds. Reporting and portfolio views now has enough leader and team sources to count as their concern. The three praise findings also keep enough sources in that group, with more mixed accounts than before. Statements now count contradicting sources separately.
  • Notes how each Operator Insight counts: Linear's customer stories for Ramp and Commure are not counted, and Coinbase's is one source, Chintan Turakhia's own talk at Arize Observe 2026.
  • Uses public sources only: each one links to the page it comes from and names its author and publication date.
  • Applies the minimum evidence rule set out under Method.
  • Admits English-language sources from 2025 or later only. This removed 21 posts from non-English and SEO sites and 27 dated before 2025. It adds 61 sources found on Oct 12, 2026: 28 Hacker News comments, 26 Reddit posts and comments, 6 GitHub issues, and 1 company blog post.
  • Adds fit outside engineering and reporting and portfolio views as concerns, now that 5 or more sources discuss each. Drops the price and plan tiers concern (4 sources) and the statement that pull requests keep status current (2 sources). It also leaves out a less-process statement and a fit-at-scale disagreement; each falls short of its source-count rule.
  • Ends the evidence window at the newest source (then Oct 8, 2026) and checks the agent, pricing, and migration findings against Linear's current documentation.

Method

A running review of what engineering teams report about Linear, from individual builders to company-wide rollouts. Each finding links to its sources, and each conflict shows both sides.

Counts cover only the sources GILD reviewed.

Who counts

Engineering leaders and teams
Very small team, Professional team, Technical leadership, Organization-wide
Individual developers
Individual practitioner
All practitioners
Everyone in the leaders and teams and individual developers groups

Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. GILD files each source in a group from how the account describes its author. A role or employer marked self-described is what the source states about themselves. Documentation checks facts for every group and never counts toward sentiment.

How the numbers work

  • Overall signal. Positive votes minus negative ones, per 100 votes from the sources that take a side. Each author counts once, with their latest view, whoever they are and wherever they posted. The older weighted reading, where accounts GILD matched to a named person count three times when GILD lists the author among engineering leaders and twice otherwise, is shown beside it as a second view. Where an author wrote more than one source, the line beside the split gives the votes, one per author, so the score follows from it. When one author's sources from the same day disagree, that author counts as mixed, and a half point rounds away from zero. Sources with no opinion are listed and not counted. Strong positive is +50 or higher, positive +20 to +49, mixed −19 to +19, negative −20 to −49, strong negative −50 or lower.
  • Weighted reading, second view. Counted the older way, where an account GILD matched to a named person counts two or three times, leaders and teams read +46 positive (method sentiment/S1). GILD printed that number as "GILD score" until October 29, 2026; most of those matches rest on a name or a self-described role.
  • Method change, Oct 30, 2026. GILD changed how practitioner sentiment counts, to one vote per author. Weighted, it read +49 Positive; with one vote per author it reads +43 Positive. No evidence changed.
  • Unscored. A group gets a score only with 20 sources from 15 authors. Below that, one source moves the score about 5 points, so the read says "Unscored until 20 sources from 15 authors" and shows its counts.
  • Independence. A source whose author works for the vendor, for one of its partners or programs, or for a competitor, and a page the vendor published or ran, is listed with that tie and counts toward nothing. One author counts on at most two records per product. The line under the score says how many authors and how many separate discussions the counted sources come from: comments in one thread are one discussion.
  • Praise and concerns. How many of the sources that discuss a theme praise it or raise it.
  • Consensus. A statement joins when 20% of the group's sources support it and fewer contradict it. Contradicting sources are counted separately. Below that line a statement shows as building. At 40% or more it reads Strong agreement; below, Recurring point.
  • Disagreements. The count on each side. GILD names no winner and gives no share of all users.
  • Minimum evidence. A finding needs 5 sources from 3 authors; a disagreement also needs 2 on each side. Smaller counts stay in the table below, marked under the minimum.

Labels on a source

A source's date and whether it still applies are separate: a recent post can describe an old version, and an old one can still hold.

Documented
Stated in official documentation.
Reported
A practitioner's account of their own use.
Measured
Backed by the source's own measurements, such as a comparative test or tracked team metrics.
GILD analysis
GILD's check of a claim against official documentation.
Current
Describes the product as it is now.
Still applicable
Older, and the behavior or lesson still holds.
Needs a recheck
May depend on a plan, version or setting that changed since it was written. It keeps counting until GILD rechecks it, since the rest of the account usually holds, and its card says so.
Out of date
No longer accurate. Kept in the record; counts toward nothing current.

Flagged for a recheck, of the sources that take a side: leaders and teams 2 of 103, individual developers 0 of 124, all practitioners 2 of 227.

Limits

  • The figures come from 298 public accounts and do not represent all users. Reddit posts and comments account for 116, Hacker News for 99, GitHub issues for 41. Blogs account for 18, posts on X for 11, and talks and videos for 12, with one Lobsters comment. The October 24 round searched for accounts on four findings (delegating issues to agents, planning visibility, reporting, and opinionated defaults), critical and mixed accounts included, and admitted individual and team accounts alike. The October 25 round added 28 sources from outside the forums, led by engineers and leaders writing under their own names. A source may report a bug, ask how to do something or request a feature without giving an opinion of Linear overall. It counts on the findings it speaks to but not toward the score. That rule moved 59 sources out of the score: 40 GitHub issues, 18 Reddit posts, 12 of them from r/Linear, and 1 Hacker News comment. Four October 25 sources, an MCP server evaluation and three posts on X, also give no opinion of Linear overall and count only on their findings. A source that speaks for a team it works in without giving a size counts as a very small team. One that states a rollout across its whole company or organization counts as organization-wide. Linear's own customer stories are not counted. Coinbase counts through its people's own words, Chintan Turakhia's talk and post on X and a Coinbase India product lead's post. GILD keeps an exact copy of every source, so it reads buyer reviews through named accounts on X, blogs, and GitHub in place of G2 and TrustRadius, which block copies. Competing-vendor comparison pages and launch posts for the author's own product were excluded. Tom Moor's talk is listed and not counted, because he is Linear's Head of Engineering.
  • Sources span 2025 and 2026, before and after Linear's 2026 agent features (Linear Agent, coding sessions, Code Intelligence, Loops). Bug reports filed as GitHub issues and closed since are marked Needs a recheck.

Every count, and the sources behind it

17 findings for 3 groups

Each row opens its sources for the group you are reading.

FindingEngineering leaders and teamsIndividual developersAll practitionersSources
Current readCurrent sentiment57 positive, 33 mixed, 13 negative81 positive, 28 mixed, 15 negative138 positive, 61 mixed, 28 negativeSources
PraiseSpeed & Keyboard-First UI14 of 15 positive15 of 30 positive29 of 45 positiveSources
PraiseGitHub, Slack & MCP Integrations11 of 15 positive13 of 25 positive24 of 40 positiveSources
PraiseDelegating Issues to Agents30 of 48 positive45 of 83 positive75 of 131 positiveSources
PraisePlanning & Progress Visibility14 of 28 positive12 of 19 positive26 of 47 positiveSources
PraiseOpinionated Defaults8 of 17 positive4 of 7 positive12 of 24 positiveSources
ConcernLess Customization Than Jira6 of 8 raise it11 of 14 raise it17 of 22 raise itSources
ConcernMigration Effort0 of 6 raise it4 of 4 raise it (under the minimum)4 of 10 raise itSources
ConcernFeature Creep & AI Push2 of 3 raise it (under the minimum)6 of 7 raise it8 of 10 raise itSources
ConcernReporting & Portfolio Views12 of 13 raise it2 of 4 raise it (under the minimum)14 of 17 raise itSources
ConcernFit Outside Engineering5 of 10 raise it1 of 1 raise it (under the minimum)6 of 11 raise itSources
ConcernSync & Responsiveness1 of 1 raise it (under the minimum)9 of 9 raise it10 of 10 raise itSources
ConsensusThe issue is the agent's brief19 supporting (below threshold)30 supporting (below threshold)49 supporting (below threshold)Sources
ConsensusEngineers adopt it without a push8 supporting, 1 contradicting (below threshold)3 supporting (under the minimum)11 supporting, 1 contradicting (below threshold)Sources
ConsensusBuilt for software teams first9 supporting (below threshold)6 supporting, 2 contradicting (below threshold)15 supporting, 2 contradicting (below threshold)Sources
DisagreementIs Linear a better tracker than Jira for your team?Linear 15, Jira 5Linear 18, Jira 2Linear 33, Jira 7Sources
Current readEvidence mix152 sources178 sources314 sourcesSources

Fact checks

GILD's checks of claims against official documentation, kept apart from the source counts.

  • GitHub, Slack & MCP Integrations. Linking a pull request or commit to an issue automates the issue's status as the pull request moves. GitHub Issues can be synced to a Linear team going forward; historical GitHub issues need the importer. GitHub, checked Oct 12, 2026
  • Delegating Issues to Agents. Installed agents receive issues by assignment or mention and are not billable seats. Linear Agent's coding sessions run Claude Code or Codex in a cloud environment and draw on prepaid AI credits; there is no per-user control over who spends them. AI credits, checked Oct 12, 2026
  • Opinionated Defaults. Cycles are a per-team setting turned on under Team Settings; when enabled, Linear creates upcoming cycles automatically and rolls unfinished work forward. Cycles, checked Oct 12, 2026
  • Less Customization Than Jira. Linear's Jira documentation lists issue types, constraints, components, and required fields as Jira features Linear has chosen not to pursue. Components arrive as labels, and required fields block synced issue creation. Jira, checked Oct 12, 2026