I don't believe Linus has ever developed Linux to be a consumer kernel. For the first ~15 years it took over servers, and still rules servers supreme. The mainl

I don't believe Linus has ever developed Linux to be a consumer kernel. For the first ~15 years it took over servers, and still rules servers supreme. The mainline kernel still sees all its investment, all its participation, coming from predominantly the server sector. Intel and AMD will keep making server CPUs, and those CPUs must support booting Linux kernels. That won't change as long as x86 is the performance king, and it would take a contender a sizable advantage to justify the opportunity cost to switch.