Indeed. svk is fairly cool. It (like anything) takes a bit getting used to though. But given that the OP is new to tools like cvs/svn it's probably best if he learns how to use svn first.

Also, I find that just as when I switched from cvs to svn and had a hard time typing "svn" because my fingers wanted to type "cvs", so too it's a bit difficult getting the fingers trained to type "svk" rather than "svn". Only it's worse for svk/svn as they are so similar.