When comparing Zen Installer vs Garuda Linux, the Slant community recommends Garuda Linux for most people. In the question“What are the best Arch Linux based distributions?” Garuda Linux is ranked 7th while Zen Installer is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Garuda Linux is:
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
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 Super-fast
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
Pro Themes
The dr460nized KDE theme is awesome.
Pro Easy entrance to Arch Linux
Filled to the brim with lots of quality-of-life changes and optimizations that are simple enough for long-time Windows, long-time Mac users, and Arch newbies to understand. Though, it also leads to bloat or not necessarily helpful extra software. If you're not into the "bloat" added in, try checking out the barebones version, you'll need to know a lot of things bout Arch to fully use barebones.
Pro Highly customized interface
You already have most of the customization done for you out of the box.
Pro Unused RAM is wasted RAM
It takes just a bit more RAM than Manjaro. Edit: This statement is only true if it helps the user and since this could be running on a low end machine this will not.
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 Needs a lot of RAM
Minimum is 4GB, for most Linux distributions it's 2GB or less.