Linear

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Slack, Linear, and Notion decided to each have a "Helper (Renderer)" process that uses 700MB of RAM each”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “We love the linear guided reviews and issue tracking so have high hopes on getting a good DX here”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “there wasn't a single person at my company who was upset about our switching to Linear”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-22

• “after using linear (for ex.) u can really see how it all fits together, i can be in cli, co-workers in slack, cowork, whatever and update tasks from anywhere”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-17

• “just added a Linear MCP server and called it a day. That's really all you need.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “We moved to Linear, which is 2 years younger than ClickUp, but it's solid in what it offers.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-27

• “linear AI realized that, labeled it as a dupe instantly after I created an issue”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “I've experimented with using Jira/Linear to handle the "current work todos" and using beads just seems so much better.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-25

• “I've been using Linear + agentFlavorOfTheMonth quite happily this way”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-06

• “I asked Linear if they could add this -- a cycle rebalance. I was told, no, this simply isn't something they want to do, but maybe I could do it with zapier. Trying to get them to understand why I wanted this was like trying to explain air to a fish. It simply did not compute.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-08

• “Linear's broad feature & strong MCP support may cause us to fully switch for backlog mgmt”

  MIXED · integration · Reddit · 2025-05-07

• “after having moved to Linear this just screams unproductivity to me”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-05

• “the full load time for everything on screen is 5.6 seconds with ~15MB of content loaded (this includes images and interactive graphs). DOMContentLoaded finishes at 360ms and the full interactive load is finished at 600ms, with me being able to click on tickets and navigate to them at the roughly 1s mark or less. Back home Linear load instantly for me with full interactivity, and the cached version of it even here in Indonesia is similarly fast.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-04-01

• “I really like Linear.app. It's a basic kanban workflow without the Jira bloat”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-24