apt-fast VS nala

FYI: I/O is indeed a limiting factor but apt is not very efficient and updates can get a lot faster with wrappers like apt-fast which download and process in parallel.

If picking another mirror doesn't speed it up, I can highly recommend apt-fast.

Use apt-fast

just as a tip: if your distro uses apt just install apt-fast (its a wrapper script for apt/ apt-get which adds multithreading, etc)

apt-fast added to improve download speed and reliability.

You can also increase the download speed by downloading multiple packages at the same time. apt does not have support for this built-in but there is a wrapper called apt-fast that does this: https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast

Use nala instead: https://gitlab.com/volian/nala

Try switching to Nala for your apt front end. Way better experience.

I do like Nala front-end for "apt". I'm new to it, but it would likely be at the top of my script.

You can use nala and do a sudo nala fetch command to find the fastest repo servers.

You’d need to be on testing or sid for nala. It’s also available from the website and you can install with dpkg.

Nala is available on Stable, but you have to use our repositories as specified in our installation instructions https://gitlab.com/volian/nala/-/wikis/Installation.

nala says hello.

I know that Nala has support for this, but it's one of the lesser used features so there could be some bugs present. https://gitlab.com/volian/nala

idk anything like this, but you can use Nala, to make apt looks better. :)