The ONLY feature(s) of Debian that make it so appealing to me are:

#1. apt-get install and I don't have to go hunting to find what .rpm has was stupid library.

#2. It is STABLE. Rock solid.

Now, the REASONS for those two items are fairly complex. They have to do with Debian's policies and the social interaction to maintain those policies.

There is NOTHING in Debian that CANNOT be replicated in EVERY OTHER DISTRIBUTION.

But they refuse to do so.

This isn't about Debian being freeloaders or whatever.

Debian places MORE restrictions and MORE requirements on their distribution than the others do.

Because of this, Debian is a better distribution (for my needs).

Again, there is NOTHING stopping ANY of the OTHER distributions from duplicating Debian's WORK.

But they refuse to do so, for whatever reason.