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Well, Linux filesytems (ext2, ext3, ext4) are case-sensitive as well.

• Dylan16807 14y ago
  The problem is the choice, not the sensitivity.
  • nasmorn 14y ago
    In reality there is no choice. If you choose case-sensitive you are basically fucked as there are loads of applications that will never run on your system. It is quite cynical of Apple really.
  • eridius 14y ago
    What's wrong with the choice? The vast majority of people won't even see the choice (since they're not formatting their drives manually in Disk Utility) and will get the case-insensitive default that Mac OS has always had. But there are occasional reasons why one would actually want a case-sensitive HFS+ filesystem and for those people, there's a choice.