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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Since Linux 5.2, you can disable case sensitivity on the filesystem level on ext4 (called case folding).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many things subtly break when you enable that option.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Is this a competition for worst idea to solve the problem? :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is there also an option to only have 8.3 filenames? Those long names are so tiresome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How to shoot yourself in the foot in one simple step

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is default in SteamOS.