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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
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.
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Perhaps you should start by clarifying what you actually mean by "administrative tools". But generally: network administration... check; user/group administration... check. Nmap? Wireshark? Webmin? Virtualbox? What is it you think they don't have?
Not to mention (who am I kidding--of course I'm going to mention it) that you're not doing you, or your argument, any favors by insisting on conflating a package format with the content that package provides. The deb format is no more responsible for Debian repositories' overly conservative (but not even nearly dead content) than the rpm package is for the--even more--outdated content of Redhat/CentOS/Fedora repositories.
All of which entirely misses the point that no one here was even
suggesting that a beginner should try to saddle themselves with rolling-distribution like vanilla Debian. They suggested Ubuntu and Mint; which are
derivatives of Debian. Derivatives that have the advantage of being able to use Canonical's repositories (and Mint has its own repos
in addition to Ubuntu's). Thus they have access to more recent software (and more recent
versions of software) than Debian's slightly conservative repos and Redhat/CentOS/Fedora's ancient (often deprecated) versions of software--if they have it at all.
How the various packaging systems handle dependencies is neither here nor there to beginners when they all, in fact, handle dependencies just fine.
You're either quite clueless, or being purposely obtuse. Perhaps a little of both?