He still tells people off when they're being stupid. One instance of this happened a few weeks ago when an antivaxer said something on the mailing list.
He tends to temper himself a lot more though. Doesn’t seem quite as aggressive even for instance in that message.
Which is good, although I wouldn’t have minded a bit of old school Linus for the anti vaxers.
Or that Linus is going through something very respectable.