I don’t know about this and hope someone else can answer better. Deepin isn’t packaged yet. We do have zsh so give that a try.
I don’t recall if the vmware image is using networkd or NetworkManager to configure network. Can you check?
https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/network/assign-static-ip.html#identify-which-program-is-managing-the-interface