Post #2598126

2026-05-08 19:53 UTC

@pino@social.cologne you're assuming that everyone else also thinks that case sensitivity doesn't matter which is one hell of an assumption to make about people who may have very different use cases, maybe speak different languages, etc. Again: keeping things case-sensitive removes no options for anyone, case-insensitive forces one way on everyone, removes options, and causes incompatibility issues. There's literally no benefit for a case-insensitive filesystem.

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@aesthr@wandering.shop 2026-05-08 19:54

@pino@social.cologne forcing everyone to use case-insensitive is the same kind of nonsense as forcing everyone to use ASCII and only 8 characters for filenames, and it comes from the same source: laziness on Microsoft's part

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@pino@social.cologne 2026-05-08 19:59

@aesthr@wandering.shop And "I want paris and Paris to mean the same and not want to deal with ten different inferior UI level simulations" would not be a valid use case? I'm always puzzled when people complain I'd not respect their use cases, when I have the feeling that the opposite is happening. :) But again, in real life, I'm fine with how it is. It's just interesting for me to exchange ideas and standpoints. Btw: I don't think MS was 'lazy'. Case insensitivity brings additional complexity, right?

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