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macOS users - is your home directory lowercase or capitalised? (poll)
macOS had always used your Account Name as your Username (Case-Preserving) but from around Catalina onwards it started downcasing usernames, so /Users/Yourname became /Users/yourname.
Is your username Capitalised or lowercased and which do you prefer?
- My home directory is lowercase and I don’t mind/prefer it lowercase
- My home directory is lowercase but I would prefer it Capitalised
- My home directory is Capitalised and I don’t mind/prefer it Capitalised
- My home directory is Capitalised and prefer it Capitalised, but am considering making it lowercase to be on the safe side/future compatibility
- My home directory is Capitalised but I would prefer it lowercase
- Other (please say in thread!)
If you’ve run into any issues because of it please share too 
(If you’re wondering why they started lowercasing usernames they said it was to improve compatibility and reduce issues with command-line tools/scripts - though I never had any issues myself)
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katafrakt
But wait, does it matter? The default filesystem for MacOS is case insensitive anyway, so you can do ls /uSERs/MyUsEr and it will still work. Or am I missing something wrt compatibility issues?
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