annoyed windows refuses to acknowledge that i changed a file name if it's the same as the previous name except for capitalization
Fun fact, windows files are by default case insensitive, but you can do this:
The Windows file system supports setting case sensitivity with attribute flags per directory. While the standard behavior is to be case-insensitive, you can assign an attribute flag to make a directory case sensitive, so that it will recognize Linux files and folders that may differ only by case.
From: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity
ooh good to know