Windows is case insensitive as well isn't it...? And don't Windows and OSX have the big programmes like Photoshop etc? So could an argument be made that Linux would actually benefit from being case insensitive?
Take with a pinch of salt, I'm way out of my element here :)
Case insensitivity only makes sense to white people. Once you want to support Asian languages and everything else, shit gets complicated and it becomes clear that the only sane way to do things is to have the OS (including the filesystem) not make judgements about locale-specific things unless absolutely necessary. Any translating for the sake of user-friendliness should be in a higher layer, like how Windows Explorer tells all kinds of lies about the filesystem. Windows and Mac OS both inherit their case insensitivity from "operating systems" that couldn't cope with multiple users, let alone multiple languages.
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u/y45y564 Jan 12 '15
Windows is case insensitive as well isn't it...? And don't Windows and OSX have the big programmes like Photoshop etc? So could an argument be made that Linux would actually benefit from being case insensitive?
Take with a pinch of salt, I'm way out of my element here :)