Making Fastestmirror Less Awful

Fastestmirror is a configuration option for the yum and dnf package managers in the RPM ecosystem (i.e. Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, etc) that everyone loves to hate. The name of the option is so alluring; who wouldn’t want to use the fastest mirror when downloading software packages? Enabling fastestmirror is a staple of every “First ten things to do after installing Fedora” article from…