Nah anyone can just fork the kernel anytime

If the Linux project and all its developers and maintainers disappeared tomorrow, the kernel would still exist, be useful, and be forkable.

I also user dwm and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

I use DWM in place of a window manager because I love the lightweight, minimalist base, and i like to customise my setup very finely. (I use Arch btw)

Linux users will do anything to avoid using an honest-to-god command-line package manager.