When comparing Zen Installer vs Obarun, the Slant community recommends Obarun for most people. In the question“What are the best Arch Linux based distributions?” Obarun is ranked 12th while Zen Installer is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Obarun is:
Freedom for the users.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Nice GUI installer
Very nice and easy to use GUI installer.
Pro Good for Linux Newbies
Nice GUI not too much know how needed to use it, but is that not the whole idea behind Arch, to understand and visualize what is happening during an Arch Linux install.
Pro No telemetry
Freedom for the users.
Cons
Con Not great in Virtual
Not so great when trying to setup in a virtual environment, better to just follow the wiki on the Arch Linux site.
Con Installer
The instasller is abysmal. Is there really no way to install this distro without using it ?
Con Complex for newbies
Because freedom in the world today is not simple