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Wait I thought DNF is the slow one. Is zypper even worse?
zypper is absolutely obsolete you don't have parallel downloads and it has to connect for each package so when you have 1.2GB install omg
edit: If you have more than 1000 packages to update/install you're in for a treat
APT doesn't have parallel downloads by default either. But in my case it's still 100 times faster than DNF, especially in terms of fetching. As I remember, once I had to wait for like 10 MINUTES to install htop on a Fedora live ISO. That's why I gave Fedora and DNF itself a big red DNF and started using Arch btw