For me, the biggest win about DVCS are offline commits. I (unfortunately) live in a country where powercuts aren't uncommon. Also, broadband here is expensive,

For me, the biggest win about DVCS are offline commits. I (unfortunately) live in a country where powercuts aren't uncommon. Also, broadband here is expensive, and slow (I've only got a 384 kbps connection) so not having to hit a central server for each one of my vcs related tasks helps out a lot.