At first I was running 0.94 from Ubuntu 20.04 repos and I disliked the interface so I stopped trying Inkscape for a while. After updating to 1.0.1 from the ppa ppa:inkscape.dev/stable. It now follows the system GTK theme and it crashes less.
Here is my first actual try at making a vector image. Displayed in PNG for interwebs.
Fun stuff.