Oh no.

That was way worse than mine. I was probably around 5 years old and it was on my balls. I had no idea what it was, but fortunately, my parents quickly picked up on what was going on since I was grabbing my junk a ton that day. I was fine and it was just a dog tick, but the whole encounter was still nasty.

I use GParted on a live CD/ISO for similar situations. I personally have never put my home directory on a separate partition, so I don’t know if this would somehow not work for you and I suggest backing up your data!

I have! Upgrading from Fedora 41 to 42 worked well on the 3 machines I use it on.

I think most people who use Ubuntu, in general, aren’t posting about their experience with it online. So, yes, I’d say I agree with your observation.

One of the biggest reasons I won’t use Ubuntu on anything I care about is because I had numerous upgrade issues with it.