I've been using Glide thread in both bobbin and needle for quilting for a few months now, and have noticed a huge improvement where lint is concerned.
Before that, I was using cotton from Connecting Threads. While I do love that thread, its great price and the very wide range of colors, it does produce a lot of lint. I still use it because I have quite a stock of it, but I'm very careful to clean out bobbin area very frequently.