As in all things it depends who you ask. I found it interesting that in this version Lennon was portrayed as having really stuck up for Best, going so far as threatening to quit if they sacked him, whereas McCartney was portrayed as the jerk who just wanted him gone. You can tell Pete Best had more love for Lennon than for McCartney and I wonder how much of this account was true.
As for Pete Best's drumming, he was good. I wouldn't say he was better than Ringo, but he had a different style. His playing was energetic and he had a good fast snare fill, but he overused it, it was kind of his one trick. Ringo was more versatile and his fills were more unpredictable.
In the end, though, neither of them were good enough to be studio drummers, at least at first. They needed to bring in Andy White to record their first singles. Ringo, of course, became a much better drummer as time went on. Pete Best, I'm not so sure, never really heard much of his stuff after the Beatles. But by the time the 70s rolled around rock got bigger and so did drumming and the simple style of Beatles' drumming started to sound very quaint.
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