An interesting article, though I see many of these as relative non-issues
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
>All native Linux filesystems (except ext4) are case sensitive about filenames which utterly confuses most users. This wonderful peculiarity doesn't have any sensible rationale. Less than 0.01% of users in the Linux world depend on this feature.
I-is he advocating for a return to DOS?
I-is he advocating for a return to DOS?
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@bonifartius @skadi hoo boy what exactly is this lunatic proposing. special-casing ascii in the kernel/fs and saying a big fuck you to other scripts? unicode in the kernel? right now file names are just any arbitrary byte sequence excluding NUL and '/', this idea doesn't seem well thought out
@velartrill well, it's an idea out of apple land.. i think have read an article that the apple file systems are really going lenghts to enable the ignore case behaviour. can't remember it right now though, may also just be my anti apple bias playing tricks with my mind ;) @skadi
@bonifartius @skadi yikes man. yikes
@bonifartius I don't know where he got that from, I doubt anyone has ever been confused by fucking case-sensitivs file names
