Yep, mercurial really is better, but it is also noticeably slower. I used git for about a decade, and now use hg at my job. Recently, I used used git again while playing around with something over a weekend. I instantly remembered why I loved it so much. There is really something to be said for commands resolving practically before you have noticed you pressed enter. I wonder if this is inherent or accidental; I don't know the mercurial data model well enough to understand why it would be necessarily laggier.