For teachers · every lesson
Every PC ready for the lesson.
- The same clean desktop and applications on every seat, at every boot.
- A restart restores the prepared workspace.
- See the screens, pause Internet, switch the room on and off from your desk.
Install, update and control every student PC over the local network, from the teacher’s desk. Every boot starts clean. Free and open source.
Built on NixOS. Student PCs need no Internet of their own.
For teachers and lab technicians
Two roles, one controller.
Teachers use the room; the technician changes it only when needed. Each has their own account.
For technicians · when the lab changes
One configuration for the whole room.
- Add software or change the desktop once; update one PC, a group or all.
- Install from the network beside the school’s DHCP; no client Internet needed.
- Every update is reviewed and reversible, with a next step when something breaks.
Why now
Why labs are looking at Linux now.
Three things have changed for labs that run Windows today.
Windows 10 is out of support.
Support ended in October 2025. PCs that cannot move to Windows 11 can stay in service: Nixorium needs only a 64-bit PC with UEFI.
See which PCs can stay in service →Nothing to license.
Nixorium, NixOS and the applications in the software profiles are free and open source, including the classroom view and the reset at every boot.
See what is free →Windows stays on a second disk.
Keep Windows on its own disk for the lessons that still need it. The PC starts Nixorium unless someone chooses Windows in the boot menu.
How the second disk works →Where it comes from
Born in a school lab. Built for yours.
Nixorium began in 2024 in an Italian school lab where student PCs could reach the Internet only after signing in to the school network, so installation and updates had to work from inside the room. It is maintained by a teacher who has taught in school computer labs in Florence for 25 years.
Read how it began →- 30
- student PCs in the first lab
- ~1 h
- observed reinstall of that first lab
- 1
- controller preparing and serving systems
- LAN
- installation and updates without client Internet
The reinstall time is a historical observation, not a benchmark or guarantee.
Fit check
Is Nixorium right for your lab?
Probably a good fit if
- You look after a room of PCs and can install Linux on them.
- The controller and the PCs are on the same local network, and the PCs can start from the network or from USB.
- You are tired of cloning disks every summer.
- The student PCs have little or no Internet access of their own.
Probably not a good fit if
- —Lessons depend on Windows-only software every day, not just now and then.
- —You cannot change the operating system on the PCs, or the school network keeps them from reaching each other.
- —You need to manage Windows or macOS PCs as well.
- —You want installation with nobody at the keyboard: someone has to confirm the disk at each PC.
Coming from Windows? Keep it on a second disk →Compare Nixorium with the usual school lab tools →
Get started
Start with one PC, not the whole room.
Choose a spare PC, or the teacher’s, as the controller. Install it and verify one client first.
Write to us about your lab: we reply with what to check before the first installation and how to start with two PCs.