The package management in any Debian-based distro is far superior to both Windows and other operating systems
How can it be superior if it doesn't even exist in windows? ;)
I'm not sure if apt is that much better than Gentoo's portage or fedora's yum or freeBSD's pkg_add, etc,.. but it sure is better than nothing at all! :)
-Gothi[c]
Hehe, fair enough ;) Portage is very good as well as you said, but I just don't think it's reasonable to expect your average user to have the patience to compile all his/her programs. I was just about ready to throw out the PC last time I tried compiling the Mozilla package as it just went on and on...and on. Other than that, it's excellent. In fact, everyone should probably install Gentoo at least once from scratch if they want to get to know more about how GNU Linux really works.
I wouldn't say that Yum is on the same level as apt though, as in my experience is just doesn't handle dependencies as well as apt. Unfortunately, that have been my experience with all other RPM based distros as well, which is why I now mainly stick with Debian-based ones.