A couple weeks ago I powered a laptop that had been sitting unused for several months. It had Ubuntu 22.04 installed. The initial `apt-get update` took some time to download new indexes, and almost 3 minutes to process them all afterwards, while I was right there staring at the screen wondering why I was there staring at the screen for so long, because this experience always happens as soon as any of my machines stay off for more than a couple weeks. apt is indeed very slow.