Univesal Setup

Universal setup for popular linux distros.

HiDPI

Find Fractional Scaling option in your settings for ubuntu family.

For Manjaro users, detail in Manjaro folders.

Basics

#using your package manager to install some basic software, we here using ubuntu as exmaple

sudo apt update
sudo apt install zsh vim git curl wget -y

zsh & oh-my-zsh

Oh-my-zsh

Method	Command
curl	`sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"`
wget	`sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"`
fetch	`sh -c "$(fetch -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"`

Oh-my-zsh plugins

Syntax-highlighting and autosuggestions are two must haves.

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

#Add plugins in ~/.zshrc:

vim ./.zshrc

plugins=(git zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions)

#Reload zshrc configuration
source ./.zshrc

Dual System Time Sync

If you use dual system( Windows + Linux)，time sync between these two system is necessary

Launch your powershell as admin in windows

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" /v RealTimeIsUniversal /d 1 /t REG/QWORD /f

Others

Install Wine to use Windows Apps

Install Wine using your package manager or following instrustions on Wine's website.

https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

To make wine adapted to hidpi, use winecfg

winecfg

Spotify Upscale

Try using "ctrl" and "+". If not working, try this: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Linux-client-barely-usable-on-HiDPI-displays/td-p/1067272

Steam Upscale

Details in this issue ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5460 (comment)

If the method above didn't work, try launch steam in BigPicture Mod, and quit BigPicture Mod after launching.

For China Mainland Users:

Clash is now a better choice on Linux than qv2ray or other proxy apps

We recommand you to use clash-for-windows(cfw) linux version, cfw was originally built for windows, but now it has macOS and linux distros.

Search clash for windows in GitHub then download its linux version.

Extract the tar.gz file to you home directory, we recommand that rename it as clash for convenience.

Run the file named cfw, you will see the GUI. Go to Profiles tab, paste the link that your V2Ray or SS service providers offerd, then click download.

To autostart CFW, activate start with linux option in its dashborad.

We recommend using CFW as global proxy.

For desktop apps, set proxy in sysytem setting.

Set CFW as proxy for terminal:

export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890;export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890;export all_proxy=socks5://127.0.0.1:7890

WeChat

（Method 1, Recommend) Details in this repo: https://github.com/zq1997/deepin-wine Or you can follow the steps blew:

wget -O- https://deepin-wine.i-m.dev/setup.sh | sh
sudo apt-get install com.qq.weixin.deepin

## After installation, you need to upscale your wechat inorder to fit your 2k or 4k screen
cd /opt/apps/com.qq.weixin.deepin/entries/applications
sudo vim com.qq.weixin.deepin.desktop

ADD env DEEPIN_WINE_SCALE=2

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
X-Created-By=Deepin WINE Team
Categories=chat;
Icon=com.qq.weixin.deepin
Exec=env DEEPIN_WINE_SCALE=2 "/opt/apps/com.qq.weixin.deepin/files/run.sh" -u %u
Name=WeChat
Name[zh_CN]=微信
Comment=Tencent WeChat Client on Deepin Wine
StartupWMClass=WeChat.exe
MimeType=

(Method 2) Or you can use wine to install wechat.exe

# Install some dependencies
winetricks fakechinese corefonts gdiplus riched20 riched30

# Get WechatSetup.exe
wget https://dldir1.qq.com/weixin/Windows/WeChatSetup.exe

# using wine to install this exe file
wine WineChatSetup.exe

Setup proxy for git

You can skip these part if you've set CFW as global proxy for terminal and desktop apps.

Sometimes connections to github could be unstable, use proxy for git to make it more in control.

Git through SSH

cd ./.ssh
vim config

Add these content to config file

Host github.com
        User    git
        Hostname        github.com
        Port    22
        Proxycommand    /usr/bin/ncat --proxy 127.0.0.1:7890 --proxy-type socks5 %h %p

If you are not using clash, replace 7890 with the port your proxy tool are using.

Git through HTTP/HHTPS

git config --global http.proxy 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1081'
git config --global https.proxy 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1081'

goldendict

Taking English-SimplifiedChinese translation case as exmaple here.

Add online dictionart like this: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-simplified/%GDWORD%

Make sure you don't use GoldenDict as UserAgent when access online dictionary.

To add an offline dictionary, we recommenda to make a directory under ./.goldendict called dicts. A ch-en dictinary is in files folder already, you can use that.