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Seems like you never had the joy to port some windows-software to linux where the original developers weren't aware of case-sensitive systems. And you never hat
by jackewiehose 7y ago
Seems like you never had the joy to port some windows-software to linux
where the original developers weren't aware of case-sensitive systems.
And you never hat to work with buggy windows-applications that randomly
rewrite/rename files to all upper-case or something like that.
- tom_ 7y agoIf Unix were case-insensitive too, none of this would be an issue.
- darkpuma 7y agoSome MacOS installations are case sensitive, others are not. Sometimes you find software that was written and tested on the case insensitive version that fails on case-sensitive filesystems. Case insensitive filesystems made more sense decades ago than they do today. Case insensitivity is fundamentally a UX feature that has been implemented in the wrong layer. Rather than the filesystem itself being case insensitive, the search functionality in GUI interfaces to the filesystem should be case insensitive. And furthermore, the user should never be typing out the complete name of any file that already exists, because everything should provide auto-completions of existing filenames.
- jakeogh 7y agoYou want the rest of us to suffer your nerf-fs too? No.