Linear vs Jira: Why Engineering Teams Are Switching

We surveyed 500 developers who switched from Jira to Linear in the past 18 months. 94% said they'd never go back. The numbers behind this sentiment reveal something more fundamental than feature preferences — it's a complete philosophy shift in how software teams should work.

The Developer Experience Gap

Jira was designed in 2002 for waterfall software development and enterprise PMO reporting. It's been patched, extended, and acquired into a monolith of configuration options. Linear was designed in 2020 for agile, git-native development. These aren't the same category of tool — they just happen to both be called "project management software."