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by rhinoceraptor 3730 days ago
It's not a Linux distro thing, all Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc systems are case sensitive because it's the 21st century.

The only widely used file system without case sensitivity is HFS[1]. NTFS to its credit is case sensitive, but Win32 is not, for legacy reasons (same reason as why MAX_PATH still plagues Windows).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Fea...

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And if you actually go out of your way to try and use the case sensitive HFS+ on a Mac, you have a pretty good chance of getting tripped up by user space software that doesn't like it, like Photoshop[1].

[1] https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-case-sensiti...

ZFS supports being case-insensitive.