Think the other way around: What's the use case for case insensitive file names? Does it justify the effort and complexity for the filesystem and the programs to know the difference between lower and upper space chars?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

What’s the use case for case insensitive file names?

Human comprehension.

Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.

And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!

[–] CrusherBiceps@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In case you or others reading this don't know: You can set bash's tab-completion to be case-insensitive by putting

set completion-ignore-case on

Into your .inputrc (or globally /etc/inputrc)

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you

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