Imagine that you have a choice between two pieces of software. The developer of one of those pieces of software is Linus Torvalds. The developer of the other piece of software is Mikhail Vasiliev.
The one that puts the source code online and it compiles on my computer.
And if both do that, have same features, work the same, etc., no other difference, then I'll take the smaller one - because the larger one most probably includes something I don't want, even if it's just bloat or inefficient code.
For me, he lost his credibility, when, with childish "historical" arguments, he choose to ban russian developers from the linux kernel.
Can we still trust him to not insert a backdoor in the kernel, "to fight the russians" ?
Which one do you choose?