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dotnet new command, for project templates, behaves differently between macOS and Linux (Ubuntu)

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Description

### Describe the bug
When running the command `dotnet new meadow-startkit -n MySK` on macOS and Linux, it produces different behaviour, due to case sensitivity, even though they are both *nix operating systems.
On macOS the created project and sln load and run without issue in both Visual Studio for Mac and VSCode for Mac.
On Linux (Ubuntu) VSCode loads the created sln, but it complains that the referenced csproj does not exist, when it definitely does. For some reason when passing the `-n MySK` arguments, on Linux, it converts the name `MySK` to `mysk` (note: all lower case), when replacing the required fields in the templates.

### To Reproduce
The code for the StartKit template I'm referring to, can be seen in this repo: https://github.com/WildernessLabs/Meadow.Sdk/tree/develop/Meadow_DotNet_SDK/Project_Templates/templates/Meadow.StartKit

You can test the behaviour on both Mac and Linux by running:
`dotnet new install WildernessLabs.Meadow.Template`
then running:
`dotnet new meadow-startkit -n MySK`

Under Linux you will see that the generated *.Core.cspoj is referenced, inside the other projects, as, :
```xml

```

When it should be referenced as:
```xml

```

### Expected behaviour
In short `dotnet new` should respect the casing specified after the `-n` argument when run on all operating systems, when replacing the specific placeholder, to avoid the case sensitivity issues.

### Exceptions (if any)
NA

### Further technical details
- `dotnet --info` on Mac
```
.NET SDK:
Version: 8.0.101
Commit: 6eceda187b
Workload version: 8.0.100-manifests.c4df6daf

Runtime Environment:
OS Name: Mac OS X
OS Version: 14.5
OS Platform: Darwin
RID: osx-arm64
Base Path: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/8.0.101/

.NET workloads installed:
Workload version: 8.0.100-manifests.c4df6daf
[macos]
Installation Source: SDK 8.0.100
Manifest Version: 14.2.8053/8.0.100
Manifest Path: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/microsoft.net.sdk.macos/14.2.8053/WorkloadManifest.json
Install Type: FileBased

[ios]
Installation Source: SDK 8.0.100
Manifest Version: 17.2.8053/8.0.100
Manifest Path: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/microsoft.net.sdk.ios/17.2.8053/WorkloadManifest.json
Install Type: FileBased

[maui]
Installation Source: SDK 8.0.100
Manifest Version: 8.0.7/8.0.100
Manifest Path: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/microsoft.net.sdk.maui/8.0.7/WorkloadManifest.json
Install Type: FileBased

Host:
Version: 8.0.1
Architecture: arm64
Commit: bf5e279d92

.NET SDKs installed:
6.0.101 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.306 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.403 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.404 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.405 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.406 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.407 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.408 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.410 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.412 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.413 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.414 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.415 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.416 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.417 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.418 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.419 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.420 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.421 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.422 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.100 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.101 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.102 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.103 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.200 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.201 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.202 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.203 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.302 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.304 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.306 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.307 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.308 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.309 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.310 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.311 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.312 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.313 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.314 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.315 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.316 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
8.0.100 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
8.0.101 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.1 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.12 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.13 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.14 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.15 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.16 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.18 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.20 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.22 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.23 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.24 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.25 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.26 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.27 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.28 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.29 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.30 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.0-rc.2.22476.2 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.1 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.2 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.3 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.4 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.5 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.7 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.9 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.12 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.13 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.14 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.15 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.16 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.17 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.18 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.19 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.1 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.1 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.12 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.13 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.14 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.15 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.16 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.18 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.20 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.22 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.23 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.24 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.25 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.26 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.27 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.28 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.29 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.30 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.1 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.2 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.3 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.4 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.5 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.7 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.9 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.12 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.13 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.14 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.15 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.16 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.17 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.18 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.19 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.1 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Other architectures found:
x64 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/x64]
registered at [/etc/dotnet/install_location_x64]

Environment variables:
Not set

global.json file:
Not found
```

- `dotnet --info` on Linux (Ubuntu)
```
.NET SDK:
Version: 8.0.105
Commit: eae90abaaf
Workload version: 8.0.300-baseline.24224.15

Runtime Environment:
OS Name: ubuntu
OS Version: 22.04
OS Platform: Linux
RID: ubuntu.22.04-arm64
Base Path: /usr/lib/dotnet/sdk/8.0.105/

.NET workloads installed:
Workload version: 8.0.300-baseline.24224.15
There are no installed workloads to display.

Host:
Version: 8.0.5
Architecture: arm64
Commit: 087e15321b

.NET SDKs installed:
8.0.105 [/usr/lib/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.5 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.5 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Other architectures found:
None

Environment variables:
Not set

global.json file:
Not found
```

- IDEs on Mac
- VS Code `v1.90.1`
- VS4Mac `v17.6.12 (build 410)`

- IDE on Linux (Ubuntu)
- VS Code `v1.90.1`

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