It has come a long way, I remember when I first tried Inkscape several years ago and it was constantly crashing or freezing on Windows, but now - no problems at all, the UI is great and it has all the features you need for vector graphics.
A friend of mine quite involved in the Inkscape community told me to reply this to you: source package is up, packagers haven't still compiled for the various systems (the official release annoucement will be made after that, in short time).
