There are a couple changes coming that will help 1) zstd compressed metadata. Currently almost all repos use gzip, but zstd works better. All the software supp

There are a couple changes coming that will help 1) zstd compressed metadata. Currently almost all repos use gzip, but zstd works better. All the software support is in place it just needs to be used, and Fedora will likely be turning out on soon. 2) dnf5 will do a better job of parallelizing metadata downloads. Currently it happens one repo at a time. 3) dnf5 will avoid downloading file lists.xml when it's not needed, which is a big help because that file tends to be the largest one Hopefully then it will be faster than apt without any asterisks