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Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

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Re: I've got a suggestion...

I'm not arguing for always ignoring case. I'm saying there's a time and a place. And sometimes in some places case should be ignored. (Btw the way, that "character set would be restricted" argument is nonsense. There are over 600 thousand words in English - over a million in Korean. We can add new words quite easily without needing more characters.)

At the end of the day there's a reason (actually a substantially large number of reasons) why Linux has a reputation for being unfriendly to users. And while this may not seem important to some, or of big consequence to others, it's *one more thing* that confounds users for no good reason.

And even when it doesn't confound you and even when you know exactly why this is like this, it's still frustrating to type in what you think is the filename to something only to discover that the case was wrong. It wastes the user's time.

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