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Your grandma will never type file names in shell, she'll use Open File dialog, where case sensitivity does not matter.
Hah. Second absolutely deadpan Average Familiarity instance in a Linux forum I have this week.
I mean, no offense to grandma. Plenty of grandmas are computer literate. But the idea of this hypothetical normie Windows user doing anything but double click on an icon (too slowly, with a bit too much pressure on the left mouse button, as if that made a difference, probably having single clicked to select first, just in case) is absurd.
File names are icon names first and foremost. File paths are a UI element to breadcrumb the location of the currently open file manager/explorer window unless proven otherwise.
And that is the right answer and how the whole thing should be designed.
I do that.
I use KDE.
I am a programmer.
Also, I make directories with the correct capitalisations for the project names before going inside them and running
git clone
, which makes another directory in small letters.Also, when I make header files matching class names, I capitalise them same as the class name. That messes up stuff for some others, sometimes. I like it.