Even if you disliked all the Git UIs, there are some for Hg that are almost exact clones of their subversion counterparts.
Unconvincing.
For me the most amazing thing about git is how it is built out of very simple blocks. Each commit or object is a simple hash of it's contents. Which is just brilliant really. That's why it so fast and avoids any potential data corruption.
Subversion is especially easy to use if you have to go through an HTTP proxy which doesn't forward WebDAV requests.
Another reason I love Subversion is that it remembers what revision I started a branch at. Could you imagine using a VCS which didn't do that? You'd have to write down the branch number somewhere and manually create a forward patch list anytime you wanted to merge.
A modern SVN workflow can easily look like this:
svn co https://svn.example.com/myproject/trunk .
svn copy . ^/branches/feature_branch -m 'Created feature branch'
svn switch ^/branches/feature_branch
svn ci -m 'Added foo baz'
svn switch ^/trunk
svn merge ^/branches/feature_branch .
svn rm ^/branches/feature_branch -m 'Closed feature branch'In git it's the other way round, you can go back to your working version and start over with fixing a conflict.