I've tried it recently, since it markets itself as being performant, and native-like performance is what other popular tools like Jira or Trello miss. I want to say upfront that 50ms user interactions is not what I would consider "breathtakingly fast" as the website claims. It's much better than the tools mentioned above, but doesn't really cut it for me. Maybe I'm old, but I see lots of unnecessary animations, that (in my opinion) contribute massively to the perceived slowness of basic interactions. Some of the animations are not that smooth at all, e.g. the new issue label menu color dots jiggle when menu animation finishes. I'm so tired of seeing marketing speak like "UI elegance with world-class performance" to then be only disappointed in the difference between my and the author's views on what "performance" means.

Feature-wise Linear looks great though, so I might give it another try in some time.

P.S. Can someone please explain the hate for the pointer cursor? Why some products refuse to use it for links and buttons?

edit: I reread my comment and found it sounding a bit too critical. I really think that Linear is much better that most of the alternatives in the regard of UI/performance. It's just that I hate how the meaning of the word "performance" devalued with time and claims like "50ms = breathtakingly fast/world-class" continue to contribute to that.

From memory there's an option in the settings to enable pointer cursor.

I'd wager they're doing it becuase a pointer cursor feels more like a web browser, and would impede the feeling of the app being native.

> P.S. Can someone please explain the hate for the pointer cursor? Why some products refuse to use it for links and buttons?

It's not some, it's most. I just checked my Linux and Windows machines and all of the native apps (and the native UI of the system itself) there have a regular cursor when you hover over clickable elements.

I agree, it's quite ridiculous to call that performant when considering the reality of what's possible. But compared to other electron apps, it's way better, and the team has done a good job with the bad tools given. I suppose the bar isn't very high when it comes to performance, but it's a nice positive signal that it's used as a marketing point like that. Although you do point out that the expectations are often like from two different worlds, which is true. I guess it leaves room for competent competitors.

I'm pretty sure 50ms latency between click and feedback is imperceptible to most humans. That's 3 frames at 60fps.

I don't know what superhuman perception you have, but I'm personally good with anything up to 100ms.

The alternative is Jira where we're talking something like 5000ms to load an issue.

50ms isn't instantaneous, but when you compare it to the 500ms-2s waits you see in Jira sometimes, it feels really damn fast. I think Linear's headed in the right direction, even if their marketing copy isn't perfect