> Sorry, but a filesystem that doesn't preserve exactly what I put into it is broken.
I work with non-hackers, non-computer people who use computers as tools. They are constantly surprised that Linux does make a distinction between cases. They remember the words they used as the names of documents, letters, reports, etc., and they don't want to have to remember whether it was capitalised or not.
Dictating names of documents becomes a chore when you have to specify the capitalisation. Just the other day my wife was trying to find a submission of mine here on HN and ended up phoning me in frustration, exactly because the system remembers/keeps exactly what was put into it.
Your attitude, quite rightly here for a hacker, is that you want the system to do exactly what you want. For entrepreneurs and others who deal with non-hackers, knowing that most of the world don't see things the same way, and occasionally want something "obviously wrong," is important.
I work with non-hackers, non-computer people who use computers as tools. They are constantly surprised that Linux does make a distinction between cases. They remember the words they used as the names of documents, letters, reports, etc., and they don't want to have to remember whether it was capitalised or not.
Dictating names of documents becomes a chore when you have to specify the capitalisation. Just the other day my wife was trying to find a submission of mine here on HN and ended up phoning me in frustration, exactly because the system remembers/keeps exactly what was put into it.
Your attitude, quite rightly here for a hacker, is that you want the system to do exactly what you want. For entrepreneurs and others who deal with non-hackers, knowing that most of the world don't see things the same way, and occasionally want something "obviously wrong," is important.
(edited for typos)