[wsve]

This is much more of a manpower and money problem than it is a technical one. Of course it's possible to fork Linux and rewrite it in Rust. But who would spend all that time and energy doing that without the Linux foundations funds and expertise? You'd probably burn out within a few years before ever substantially converting the code base

[glitchc]

They could make a break, refuse to support hardware older than a certain threshold. Or just focus on a specific platform like Macs.