I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Linux minus GNU. Linux is an operating system unto itself, not simply another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by
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This feels like it misses the point. The GNU is just about the userland.
Switch the userland and drop the GNU. Simple.
Also, GNU hugely contributed to the success of Linux. Ask the *BSD crowd how much extra effort maintaining a full userland actually is.
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Arguably the most successful linuxes have been non-GNU, unless you rely on the wild "everything compiled with gcc owes an unpayable debt to the gnu" moon logic.
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Even if you rely on that, Linux kernel is not always built with gcc anymore: kernel.org/doc/html/lates