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Comment by enriquto | Hacker News Reader

Please, a fork of GoboLinux called gobolinux without the silly mixed-case directory names.

It feels really petty and bike-shed-y to focus on this, but this was my first thought too when I saw the sample directory listings.

I agree, but the whole gobolinux idea is the epitome of bike-shed-y! You just rename things and the behavior is 100% identical as before.

I think I'd prefer that as well. However it is easy to configure a modern shell for case-insensitive completion.

Completion is not an issue. The problem is that upper case just looks ugly. Like huge fluorescent decals on an otherwise streamlined matte black road bike. They put a lot of effort to create an über-elegant naming scheme, and then they spoil it for no reason.

First thing I thought of too. Mixed cases when all the directory names are single words seems completely unecessary.

End users are used to mixed-case system directory names.

  C:\Windows\System32

  C:\Users\bob\Downloads

You're using Windows examples. Directory names are case insensitive on Windows. On Linux system directories and command names have always been lowercase only for good reason.

Why should I have to memorize the fact that the folder for the package sudo starts with a capital S but the command sudo doesn't. It's not like the capital S carries any information, and as others have pointed out, it's ugly.

just use zsh, their autocomplete also ignore case '__')? no?

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