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tl;dw: the Swedish and Finnish pronunciations use the same “i” as “Linux”, but Torvalds doesn’t care if people use the English one.
Except it doesn’t in Finnish, where Linus Torvald is from. Linus and Linux is pronounced the same except for the final consonant.
I’m Italian and I pronounce both "i"s in the same way. Why is English so strange?
In this particular instance, the Great Vowel Shift is to blame. What caused that is up for debate.
In general, English is so strange because it’s a mongrel language, incorporating words from a variety of other different languages.
