I used SVN a lot before hg and git came out, and liked it, but once distributed systems were available it was just so much easier to clone copies and keep them

I used SVN a lot before hg and git came out, and liked it, but once distributed systems were available it was just so much easier to clone copies and keep them wherever I wanted that I switched over and never looked back. I prefer hg for many of my personal projects (and not just coding--I store things like my blog in hg repos) because I find it simpler than git for basic repo operations.