I have not really been able to even find out what is responsible for generating these options and who to mention it to.
I am refering to a global setting for file sorting that gets applied to all file lists within a Distro / DE.
This setting seems to be linked to Language Formats / Locale settings within DE settings.
Find it odd that this is not a separate setting by itself, someones speaking languages does not necessarily define what file sorting method they want to use.
I would imagine there are many different type of file sorting methods, odd that Linux does not offer a simple setting with more options to choose from.
The only two I have found are
1.) locale LC_Collate=en_US.UTF-8
which is case sensitive and does not support underscores at top of list
lowercase letters show up before uppercase letters
2.) locale LC_Collate=C
which puts files that start with underscores at bottom and also lower case letters at bottom?
Natural Sort Method
What I am looking for is called a "Natural Sort" method (I know "Linux is not Windows") but why would there not be a setting to support this, I don't think Windows created this sorting method? even if they did, why not an option to support it?
I don't personally dual boot but for those who have NTFS drives, Linux supports NTFS drivers. This means that any user that have a Windows based drive / data drive that follows a natural sort method then when they boot up using Linux all there files are sorted completely differently.
Natural Sort provides....
Underscores at top
Ignore letter case
numbering sorted naturally
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__1
__2
__10
__A
__a
_1
_2
_10
_A
_a
1
2
10
Apple (1)
apple (2)
apple (3)
Apple (10)
Apple (11)
Just don't want to have to abandon others distros such as Mint, for such an issue.
If this and a Nemo issue I am having don't get fixed I will have no choice but to do so, which is sad.
Could any developers of Mint please let me know if something like this would be considered to be added and (I know hard to answer) but maybe give an idea of how long something like this would take to implement?
Thank you to whoever reads all of this sorry know this is a long post