If the community wants to fork Linux, I'd encourage that, but I also know that it would be a hell of a task to fork, deslopify, and maintain security and features.

It royally sucks to see him behave this way because it doesn't give people a lot of options.

I don't have any advice. "Switch to FreeBSD/OpenBSD/whatever else" is not good advice and solves nothing for most users of Linux.