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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Both Mint and Ubuntu (Mint is actually based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian) both have plenty of administrative tools.
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Such as?...
And the deficiencies of DEB format are clear for any user who searches for extra software (because Debian repository is virtually dead due to lack of maintainers), as its way of specifying dependencies and keeping all installed packages in a text file (!!) will prevent installing most of the software.
RPM has a more convenient dependency model, and relies on actual files instead of packages. Also, it is the standard Linux format, unlike DEB.