Shorin ArchLinux Guide: A Chinese-Language Walkthrough from First Install to GPU Passthrough

Who the Shorin ArchLinux Guide is written for

The README states the premise directly: the author came to Linux through local AI deployment, found the desktop experience worth writing about, and concluded that Chinese-language material about desktop Linux was outdated and thin. The guide is therefore aimed at a reader who is interested in Linux but has no prior knowledge, and it says so: no background is assumed. It also draws a line the author considers important, between server Linux and desktop Linux, and between development use and daily use, arguing that mixing them causes pointless arguments. That framing is the reason the table of contents looks the way it does. There is a distribution-selection page with a section on distributions to avoid, a preparation page covering USB media, Windows-side steps and BIOS settings, and then per-distribution tracks for Linux Mint, CachyOS and Arch Linux. The README notes that the whole tutorial assumes an existing Windows system, and tells readers who do not want a dual boot to skip the Windows-related parts. That assumption is a real scope limit: a reader with only a blank disk is following instructions with a branch they cannot use.

How the wiki is organised and what the convenience script actually does

The repository is a documentation tree, not an application. The top level holds README.md, LICENSE, pictures/, wallpapers/, a legacy/ directory and a wiki/ directory, and the README's index links into wiki/Home.md and the pages beneath it. The Arch Linux track is the deepest: the installation page is split into conceptual explanation, manual installation, an AI-assisted installation path, and a script installation path. Beyond installation there are pages for the desktop environment, Chinese input methods, Nvidia drivers, playing games on Linux, virtual machine programs and GPU passthrough, plus a general page on using AI while running Linux daily, which the README describes in terms of an "AI Harness", installing opencode and example scenarios. There is also a page on cleanly deleting Linux, covering removal of partitions and the boot entry and removal of the entry stored on the motherboard. The one executable artefact the README advertises is a convenience script for configuring Arch Linux and Arch-derived distributions, which it says performs the necessary base configuration and can also build a desktop environment from the author's configuration files. The README does not document rollback for that script, so if you run it on a working system, the recovery path is your own responsibility. Read it before you run it.

Installing Arch with the guide: what a first session looks like

There is no package to install. You read the wiki, and the only thing you execute is the convenience script, which the README links as a page under wiki/archlinux. Because the README does not publish the script's filename or its flags, the honest first step is to open that page and follow its own instructions rather than guessing a command. What the README does tell you is what the script is for: base configuration on an already-installed Arch or Arch-derived system, and optionally a desktop environment built from the author's configuration files. So the order implied by the repository is: install Arch by the manual, AI-assisted or script route described in the installation page, boot into it, then run the convenience script for configuration. The AI-assisted path is the part worth noting, because it is not a generic suggestion to ask a chatbot. The guide treats an AI harness as a documented tool with a specific installation page and a set of usage scenarios, which is a more concrete position than most beginner tutorials take. For the script route, the repository layout is the only preview you get: wiki/ holds the pages, and the script is described inside them.

Where this guide stops being the right tool

The guide is written for one reader at one machine. Nothing in the README suggests a configuration management model, a versioned release you can pin, or a supported upgrade path for the script's output. If you are provisioning identical workstations, or you need the desktop configuration to be reproducible across machines and reviewable in a pull request, this is the wrong instrument; you want a declarative system that owns the whole machine state. The second limit is language. Every page is in Simplified Chinese, so a reader who cannot read it is relying on machine translation for instructions about partitioning and bootloaders, which is exactly where a mistranslated word is expensive. The third is that a wiki tracks a moving target. Arch is a rolling release, and the README invites corrections and pull requests, which means pages change as readers find problems. The repository has no releases, so there is no snapshot to cite when a step no longer matches your system. Treat every command as something to verify against the Arch Wiki before running it, not as a fixed recipe.

How it differs from a general-purpose Arch tutorial

The obvious alternative is the Arch Wiki itself, which is the upstream reference and is available in multiple languages. The difference is shape rather than accuracy. The Arch Wiki is organised by topic and written for someone who already knows what they are looking for: you arrive with a question and leave with an answer, and nothing tells you which question to ask first. This guide is organised as a path, with the README instructing newcomers to read from top to bottom and to not worry about the parts they do not understand yet. It also covers ground the Arch Wiki deliberately leaves to other projects, such as a distribution-selection page with a section on distributions to avoid, a comparison track for Linux Mint and CachyOS, and a page on cleanly removing Linux afterwards. That last one is the clearest illustration of the difference in intent: the Arch Wiki describes how to install and configure, while this guide also describes how to undo the whole thing and get back to a Windows-only machine, including the firmware boot entry. If you already know what you want to build, the Arch Wiki is faster. If you do not know what to build yet, the ordering here is the product.

Maintenance, upgrades and the CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence

The repository is not archived and the last push was on 2026-09-28, so the pages are being touched. There are no releases, which means there is no changelog to read and no version number to compare against your own notes; the only signal that something changed is the commit history. Practically, that makes upgrades a manual review task: before re-running the convenience script on a system you already configured, check what changed in the wiki pages that describe it, because the README does not document rollback. The licence is CC-BY-SA-4.0, a content licence rather than a software licence. It permits sharing and adaptation with attribution, and it requires derivative works to carry the same licence. For a reader that is mostly irrelevant. It matters if you want to fork the guide, translate it, or fold its pages into your own internal documentation: the share-alike condition travels with the text, and the attribution requirement applies to the pictures and wallpapers distributed in the repository as well. None of this is legal advice; read the LICENSE file in the repository if you intend to redistribute.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt this guide if you read Simplified Chinese, run Windows today, and want one ordered path through Arch installation, dual boot, Nvidia drivers, a desktop environment, Chinese input and gaming. Do not adopt it if you need an unattended, repeatable provisioning system for a fleet of machines, because the repository is documentation with a convenience script rather than a supported installer, and there are no releases to pin. Before you start, read the wiki page for your distribution and the clean-removal page together, and confirm on the Arch Wiki that the bootloader and partition layout it describes still match current practice.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. Issues
2. License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
3. README
4. SHORiN-KiWATA/Shorin-ArchLinux-Guide on GitHub