There shouldn't be another Linus. The model of a single maintainer holding so much importance is fundamentally flawed, especially for a project with the size and importance of Linux. Responsibilities and decision making should be distributed among stakeholders and volunteers. It will take time to rebuild around that sort of structure.

I've also heard tell that the linux-kernel mailing list has become extremely toxic, especially to newcomers. A professor that I have a lot of respect for has stopped teaching his kernel drivers course because one of his students received death threats related to her involvement. If a change in the tenor doesn't happen, less and less of the fresh blood that Linux needs will join.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation

Not much will change.

Nothing. But I would love a microkernel approach like redoxOS. Monolithic kernel is such a bloat?

We will switch to GNU/Hurd.

Then we will plug a USB device and remember that Hurd doesn't support that yet.

Clone him

When linus dies we will pull a weekend at bernie's and make commits under his name then we will turn him into a human meat puppet.

There are plenty of other tech youtubers to watch.

The top secret classified, for your eyes only papers will finally be revealed and we will find out that...
we have all been using BETAMAX this whole time, not Linux. O_o

is there a Linus 2?

There was but Carmen Ortiz took care of that little problem, if you know what I mean 😉