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If you know Inkscape, you'll feel right at home with Sketch. The extra functionality I'm talking is usually unlocked with additional hotkeys and visual helpers that appear by themselves when dragging things around. I'm not exaggerating about 10x productivity boost, it is really that big.

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Looked it up, it seems more targeted to page layout applications. Is it really that much better for something like a drawing in a math textbook?

For that specific goal, maybe, no. Sketch really excels when doing vector designs that are going to be presented in a raster displays, so a lot of its features revolves around a pixel grid.

Inkscape does not care about pixel grid, being an SVG vector editor, but it still could use some modern interface tricks, like various stroke/outline options, nudge settings and rulers for measuring distances between objects.

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