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Case-sensitive file names

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Case-sensitive file names, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 3 complaints

Must remember exact capitalization when typing paths, filenames, and commands, causing errors and double-checking2024-06-01
Files named INSTALL and install are confusing and needlessly hard to tell apart2017-09-26
Case-sensitive file names are confusing for ordinary users who aren't programmers2015-01-13