...which is literally the highest praise I have ever given and probably ever will to issue-management software. They correctly realize that we mainly want to not notice the software, which is something that every competitor gets wrong.
What I can't figure out is how they possibly got funding in the reddest of red oceans with a pitch that couldn't have been much more than "we'll make Jira but not suck" (that's essentially all it is), but I'm glad they did.
My biggest complaint is that they don't believe in email notifications. They have a very basic "catch up digest" but it comes in very slow and doesn't appear at all of you happen to look at Linear at the wrong time (because you are "active" and so clearly don't want a notification). So it is easy to miss stuff unless you are constantly checking their inbox.
It also has a bit too much structure with projects/tasks/subtasks which I find is less useful then just dependencies as you often want to break up a subtask but it doesn't really support that. But it does have raw dependencies so you can just use those even if they are quite basic.
But overall it is fine. Which is also the best thing I've ever said about an issue manager.