NTFS absolutely supports case sensitivity but, presumably for consistency with FAT and FAT32 (Windows is all about backwards compatibility), and for the sake of Average-Joe-User who's only interaction with the filesystem is opening Word and Excel docs, it doesn't by default.

All that said, it can be set on a per-directory basis: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

MacOS uses the APFS file system format nowadays, and used HFS+ before that. FAT and ExFAT formats are supported too. However, the NTFS format needs third party software to work.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What’s a windows?

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Were you talking about MacOS? It's been a long time since I last had to use it but I assumed it was case sensitive because it's Unix based. Uh maybe ignore me then!

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah. They have both case sensitive and case insensitive options when you format your drive. It used to default to case insensitive. I haven’t formatted my boot drive in a long time, so I can’t say what it defaults to today.