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Comment by nilirl | Hacker News Reader

Am I the only that doesn't "get" Linear? Even if speed is the killer feature, isn't an issue tracker a relatively low-frequency application for a dev?

Whenever I use it, I don't feel like I'm doing anything new when compared to all the other issue trackers and Kanban boards I've used before.

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I honesty can’t say it’s better than Jira, the myriad options just make it a confusing mess to figure out how to navigate and put stuff (could be my company is just hella disorganized), and the GitHub tracking is annoyingly eager (just because the first PR has been merged doesn’t mean the ticket is done).

Maybe we work at the same company. I have the same experience. Don't know why people use it.

Say what you will about Jira, at least it’s not a total maze.

Guess you've never seen the administrative side?

On the contrary. I’ve been an admin more than not and configured it from scratch 4 or 5 times.

But even if the admin side is baroque, for a user just dealing with tickets and projects/epics it’s far less confusing.

It is definitely way more performant than Jira + Microsoft Planner. Trello comes to mind in terms of performance. I speak from being a heavy user of Linear for my personal project and as a Jira enterprise user.

A leader of 6 will spend a lot of time in such an app, so the UX is valuable and a differentiator for them.

Jira is fine and devs just grow to hate issue trackers because they hate that part of the job. Watch for another one to come and go when people get sick of linear.

I don't understand it either. How can "Jira but faster" be a selling point?

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