Welcome
This guide is still in construction, don't expect the process to be entirely optimal for now...
LXUP ? Is that an exoplanet ?
It means actually two related things: LinuX setUP and Learning eXperience UPgrade
Want to know more about the history ? Checkout the About pages.
Want to help?
Whether you have five minutes or a few hours, you can contribute by reporting an issue, testing a setup, improving a guide, or contributing code. Read this guide in order, until you feel ready to start.
Depending on your motivation and time, we recommend you read the following pages before starting. Not everything will be immediately useful, but it is important to know that it exists, so you will remember to come back when needed.
Your interest vs Pages to read |
Welcome page | Send us your feedback | Community policy | Edit the guides | Contribute code | Help the community |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I want to promote this awesome website ! | X | |||||
| I saw issues, I have suggestion or I have ideas on how to improve the guides | X | X | ||||
| I want to redact content directly in the guides | X | X | X | |||
| I want to write code on the automations and dedicated tools | X | X | X | |||
| I understand how the community works and I want to help it grow and be sustainable | X | X | X | X | (X) | X |
Goals for 2026
Since July 2026, we would love to build a growing community of people sending feedback, writing content or even changing the website itself. We have the following goals for the last 5 months of 2026.
If you are interested about productivity tools or you are into Computer Science, you can help! Every contribution is welcome, even something as simple as fixing a typo! Just keep reading this guide to find out how to get started.
Promote the website
If you got any value from this website, we highly appreciate when you talk about it to other people !
Are you a student who wants to share a course guide ?
- To share to teachers, you can talk to them orally at the end of a course. But please, do it only if the guide is mature enough to be shared to the whole class.
- To share to other students, you have to know that expect early-adopters, most people don't invest themselves into trying new tools when the guide value is uncertain. They can fear technical problems during their labs, because they are not confident to fix it themself. These worries knowing that teaching assistants don't have time to do support for unofficial setups.
To maximize the chance of convincing of the value before your recipient will read it, please share the link with a short text to
- Mention why this guide is helpful to you and why is it different from the existing tools!
- To help them adapt their expectations, indicate the maturity level. Mention if you had any unfixed issue with the tools or tips.
- To remove some fear of being stuck, you can also offer your support in case something is broken.
Have you used one of the productivity tools and want others to benefit from it too ?
Please share the link around, but mention why this tool is helping you, how it fit into your workflow and why it is worth considering. Mention how easy it was to install and how fast you learned the first steps.