Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) Mar 1

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ take: The fact that UNIX tools haven't adapted to LFNs properly in over fifty years is terrible. Normal people want natural file names (and even technical people like myself do too).

It's a massive failing that Linux userspace has not adapted to make natural language name conventions easier to use. Computers should adapt to user needs, not the other way around.

Show threadmirabilosMar 1

@neal ?

All Unix filenames are technically LFNs, as the limit was 14 > 8 + 3 always.

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@neal and not all-uppercase either
Mar 1 at 3:08pmWeb
Show threadNeal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) Mar 1
@mirabilos They are, but lots of tools assume you don't take advantage of that. It also is reflected in usernames and other things which technically permit these things, but enough tools assume otherwise that you can't. 😦