After having reviewed some basics to Drupal I really have been impressed! As a fan of Joomla my first approach was rather skeptical. But after viewing the first videos I really got interested and took a deeper look; the Possibilities with Drupal seem to be even greater than with Joomla. This, I believe, is mainly due to the more flexible structuring principle Drupal is using.
Conceptionally:
Nodes instead of sections - views instead of ? hmm... what?
That’s great! Just what I need! A new handy tool to experiment with! -Views are a way to style the listing of the node content! As it is with Joomla, templating allows for individual placing. But, and I'd like you to help me on this one, it seems to me Drupals system of creating
User Management
Joomla can be equally user-specific as Drupal, but Drupal has such a beautiful feature where you can tweak each users display options and file handling right down to the very user. That's cool!
Extensions/Contributions
Joomla has various possibilities to achieve the same output effect. The goal thus can be achieved by both systems, yet Drupal focuses more on emerging topics while Joomlas way of structuring basically relies on sections and categories in which content can be stored. Joomla offers many sometimes huge extensions which are really exciting.