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Now take Android. Files are case-sensitive yet you can't create 2 files with same name if they only vary in case.
One of the most pointlessly annoying things I've had to deal with was trying to move a process made for Linux onto a Windows MINGW/cygwin-type environment where one of the scripts would generate ".filename" AND ".FileName" files. :|
TIL, thanks. I wonder why they chose to do it this way.
They cater to windows users that are used to the quirks of their broken system.