What is Linear and why do engineering teams prefer it?

Linear is a project management tool built specifically for software teams — it's fast, opinionated (follows good agile practices), and deeply integrated with GitHub/GitLab. Engineering teams love it because it doesn't try to be everything: it focuses on issue tracking, sprints, and cycles with a clean interface. Linear has largely displaced Jira for modern startup engineering teams who find Jira over-engineered and slow.