I'm told git massively improved its interface in the last few years. I started using it mainly in 2010 after switching from bzr, and had little trouble understanding the system (in fact I found hg's interface to be kind of weird). But there you go.

(Also, wrt

Taboo "track" and "checkouts". I don't know what you mean by "track", and Mercurial doesn't have checkouts, as I understand the term. A clone isn't "checked out" of anything.

In git-land "checkout" means a working directory; by "multiple checkouts all over your disk" I assume MBlume means multiple clones of the repository.)