Subversion was great up until your working directory somehow got corrupted. Then you'd be in some kind of personal hell cleaning it up.
And honestly, it was always a pain in the ass setting up "the server". Unlike with git you needed a server / service running 24/7 upon which to check your code into. Which was always a pain in the ass at home... needed to keep some stupid subversion service running somewhere. And you'd have to go back into that service and remember how to create new projects every time you got a wild hair up your ass and wanted to create a new thing.
Git you just do "git init" and boom, you have a whole complete version control system all to yourself with no external dependency whatsoever.
That being said, TortiseSVN was the best GUI for version control ever.
And honestly, it was always a pain in the ass setting up "the server". Unlike with git you needed a server / service running 24/7 upon which to check your code into. Which was always a pain in the ass at home... needed to keep some stupid subversion service running somewhere. And you'd have to go back into that service and remember how to create new projects every time you got a wild hair up your ass and wanted to create a new thing.
Git you just do "git init" and boom, you have a whole complete version control system all to yourself with no external dependency whatsoever.
That being said, TortiseSVN was the best GUI for version control ever.