[gregmac]

I have only a very tiny amount of experience with Hg, and it was my first experience with DVCS. I found the learning curve on it much smaller (which is mainly why I choose it over git at the time).

The reason I switched to git was mostly inertia. Many open source projects were going to git, Github was starting to really take off, and just generally there was a bigger community around git. This mean git got more (and likely better) choices for tooling, more help, and personally I would have to deal with fewer SCM's when working on open source/etc stuff.

I suspect the author was talking on those lines, and the other thing already pointed out in this thread: ability to find experienced people.