• DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    This isn’t “Windows design”… this is just inherited stone age bullshit from the DOS days when the filesystem was FAT16 and all file names were uppercase 8.3.

    NTFS is case sensitive in its underlying design, but was made case insensitive by default, yet case preserving, for reasons of backwards compatibility.

    If Microsoft has to design something from scratch, without the need for backwards compatibility, they go for case sensitive themselves. For example: Azure Blob Storage has case sensitive file names.

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      4 months ago

      case insensitive by default, yet case preserving

      This isn’t just a Windows thing… It’s the same on MacOS by default.