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Having switched to OS X about a year ago after years of Linux usage, I can say that personally I really like the case insensitivity OS X has by default. It does
by Superpelican 11y ago
Having switched to OS X about a year ago after years of Linux usage, I can say that personally I really like the case insensitivity OS X has by default. It doesn't whine every time I accidentally (don't) press caps lock. Case sensitive file systems must be the dumbest invention ever. Who is seriously going to distinguish his/her files by capital and non-capital letters? "Test.txt" and "test.txt" should be the same!
- rodgerd 11y agoTo borrow a snark from Twitter: the same sort of person who has a cat named mittens and another cat named MITTENS.
- DanBC 11y agoWhat is the reason for case insensitive file systems? This 2001 page has some possible reasons. (Much simpler; some benefits). http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html
- 4ydx 11y agoThis only applies to ASCII (at best). Case insensitivity is very annoying.
- tagrun 11y agoDid you know that upper <-> lower conversion (which a case-insensitive FS must perform) isn't universal and depends on locale?