You may well be correct - perhaps the distributed tools are easier - I need to get one of them installed so I can play around with it to figure it out.

That said, if people don't get version control at all (yip, there are plenty of them) then its probably going to be harder to convince them of the merits of both version control and a distributed model at the same time.

I have certainly learned in the last few month that changing the direction of a large team is no easy task, and convincing people to use any tool that is even slightly off the beaten track is going to make that task even harder.

Its sad - I wish there were more curious, keen to learn people when I work!