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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I prefer case sensitivity, the filesystem shouldn't do any magic like that. If someone types "file.txt", opening "File.TXT" would be convenient, but also misleading. Ignoring case is what autocompletion/search is for imo.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

The best things is when the OS enforces magic onto the filesystem. Ntfs is case sensitive but windoze is not. So expect some real fun times if you use ntfs on other systems.