In my experience, Ubuntu (and Unity specifically) gets stale after a while; as more and more cruft builds up it is difficult to use the system without breaking

In my experience, Ubuntu (and Unity specifically) gets stale after a while; as more and more cruft builds up it is difficult to use the system without breaking things and you end up having to do a clean install to refresh the system. I haven't experienced this with a ``cutting-edge'' distro like Arch.