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This is such an obvious solution. Kinda crazy that the whole world uses Debian and such, while this exists since 2002 (it's older than Ubuntu). I mean, yeah, I didn't switch to NixOS despite it being "obviously better" too, but it feels like there must have been much less friction 22 years ago to adopt better design. (Maybe capitalized directory names are to blame, they are disgusting.)

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I seem to recall that Gobo turned on case-insensitive shell tab-completions by default so in practice it was a non-issue.

The real issue is case sensitive file systems. When do you actually want two files with the same name in different cases? That's not a human-centric design choice, Mac and Windows got this one right.

You can go around case sensitivity in user facing applications by using fuzzy search. Even command line tools can use Tab for autocompletion. Case for case sensitivity is not in ability to have two files which differ in case, but simplicity of underlying code that has to deal with paths.

The real issue is somebody popularized this absolutely nonsensical idea that filesystems could be case-insensitive. They cannot. "A", "a" and "а" (Cyrillic) are different characters with different codepoints, whether you like it or not. Deal with it.

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