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thank god it's not case sensitive holy shit. i don't understand the kind of person who would see that as a positive.
Seriously.
It sounds like a fucking nightmare. Imagine working on something for days and it refuses to work cause you accidentally capitalized 1 file name and dont notice it?
That sounds like the kind of shit they'd do in tech hell.
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The main problem with case-insensitive is that software sometimes is lazily developed: If a file is named βFile.txtβ and a program opens βfile.txtβ, then on a case-insensitive file system it will work fine. If you then format your drive to case-sensitive, the same software now fails to load the file. Source: tried case-sensitive filesystem on macOS some years ago.
Had this issue with Full Tilt! installer on Wine, fortunately the fix was easy
Its given me issues installing the Fallout 2 Restoration patch.
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The android build system used that limitation of Windows to prevent android from being built on Windows. They purposely had directories with the same name but different capitalization.
Why would they do that on purpose?
Maybe a reason why the Android Subsystem for Windows got canned?
Does this also work in Linux or just GNU/Linux?
Or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+Linux
cd downloads
bash: cd: downloads: No such file or directory
cd Downloads
user@pcname:~/Downloads$
Bash has an option for that you can put in your .bashrc:
bind "set completion-ignore-case on"
Zsh autocompletes lowercase input to the correct file or folder name when using tab. It's great!
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I wanna "make a both filename"!
Is it just me or is that more of a hinderance?
I absolutely fail to see the utility of having a user called Bob and bob, or a dir called Downloads and downloads. Capitalisation makes sense in code - at a glance I can know I'm looking at a Class or a var, but for system administration it has only ever wasted time, and not once made anything easier.
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Yeah
Definitely an inconvenient thing.
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Strictly speaking, this is a limitation of the default filesystem, and not the core operating system. If you mount a NFS share that is case sensitive, it will still be case sensitive.
Technically not a limit there either since you in windows on NTFS can set a flag on a folder to make it case sensitive
fsutil.exe file queryCaseSensitiveInfo <path>