Fossil user here. Yes, you can commit individual files.

There are certain more advanced things git can do that fossil can't--for example rebasing, which the author refuses to implement. If you want to rename a commit then you also have to go into the sqlite shell and do it manually, and there's no way to delete a bad commit. All of this is stupid, obnoxious asshattery on the part of the author, but otherwise it's very easy to use and bulletproof. (I don't ever use the web UI.)

One way to simulate "staging" is to just checkout the repo into multiple directories and do different things in each one, or even create a temporary work repo to be cleaned up and merged into the main one.

So you do lose some flexibility with fossil, but for normal uses it's quite usable, and the tradeoff is you won't ever accidentally blow your leg off.

EDIT: Since literally every other comment I made after this (like 3 of them) was downvoted and insta-flagged by the brigade of useless fags here, this will be my last post under this account. Fuck this piece of shit forum.

Second time today I've read and agreed with most of your comment only to eyeroll and downvote once seeing your ridiculous and immature edit.