Per Rob Pike, the very existence of "hidden"
named dotfiles was a bug that snowballed: https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
I for one get frustrated at work, using git on windows, when I try to create a .gitignore file or something of the sort and windows bitches at me saying "You must type a file name". At least there are easy workarounds for it, but explorer is just retarded.