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I have the same feeling regarding both Github and Gitlab merge requests. After using Gerrit for almost 4 years at work with enforced fast-forward, having a linear git log is relaxing.

The merge commits enforced by these "mainstream" platforms are noise for me. I think that now one can choose to fast-forward on pull requests, but per PR and not by default.

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Linus isn't really talking about linear history here or forcing devs to rebase. He's just saying that the merge commit's message generated by the UI does not describe the features that were merged and the author of the commit is a gitlhub.com user.

There's no discussion of git strategies here.

I personally prefer merge commit and don't mind having a non linear history.

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