diff --git a/DOCS/interface-changes/console-exact_match.txt b/DOCS/interface-changes/console-exact_match.txt
index d979aed26c..d465d7169d 100644
--- a/DOCS/interface-changes/console-exact_match.txt
+++ b/DOCS/interface-changes/console-exact_match.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 add `console-exact_match` script-opt
+make `console-case_sensitive` only affect exact searches and change the to default to no on platforms other than Windows
diff --git a/DOCS/man/console.rst b/DOCS/man/console.rst
index a636b0735b..8055f5a79b 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/console.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/console.rst
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ Configurable Options
     this option, prefixing queries with ``'`` enables exact matching.
 
 ``case_sensitive``
-    Default: no on Windows, yes on other platforms.
+    Default: no
 
-    Whether autocompletion is case sensitive. Only works with ASCII characters.
+    Whether exact searches are case sensitive. Only works with ASCII characters.
 
 ``history_dedup``
     Default: true
diff --git a/player/lua/console.lua b/player/lua/console.lua
index 817f51b5f8..29e82253db 100644
--- a/player/lua/console.lua
+++ b/player/lua/console.lua
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ local opts = {
     selected_back_color = "#FFFFFF",
     match_color = "#0088FF",
     exact_match = false,
-    case_sensitive = platform ~= "windows" and true or false,
+    case_sensitive = false,
     history_dedup = true,
     font_hw_ratio = "auto",
 }
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ local function format_grid(list, width_max, rows_max)
     return table.concat(rows, ass_escape("\n")), row_count
 end
 
-local function fuzzy_find(needle, haystacks, case_sensitive)
-    local result = require "mp.fzy".filter(needle, haystacks, case_sensitive)
+local function fuzzy_find(needle, haystacks)
+    local result = require "mp.fzy".filter(needle, haystacks)
     table.sort(result, function (i, j)
         if i[3] ~= j[3] then
             return i[3] > j[3]