A lot depends on the type of aircraft. Many of the newer electronic aircraft will only work at all if you rigidly follow the manufacturer's procedures, so using their checklist makes sense. at the same time they have (usually) quite short and user friendly checklists.
On the other hand, a lot of older designs there is no real usable checklist; just an extremely long and cumbersome list of required items that the operator has to distil into procedures that cover everything followed up with a useable checklist to verify. And some even older ones don't even have that, but they are pretty rare these days.
So the short answer is there is no short answer! But as MM says, the checklist must match your SOPs otherwise it is worse than useless.