Is ubuntu Linux is the best flavor?

Answer 1

This is too subjective to answer. What may be the "best" Linux distribution for one user will be despised by another for a few reasons. I personally do not care for Ubuntu as an Arch user. I don't generally recommend it anymore for new Linux users in favor of Mint because I believe Ubuntu's "suitability" is slowly decreasing due to how its developers seem to think. The planned Wayland switch will probably make Ubuntu irrevocably broken for a lot more users than the Pulseaudio switch.

To me, the developer mentality of community involvement only seems to fly as far as third-party contribution and their developers have a nasty habit of ignoring the Ubuntu community in favor of whatever changes they decide are best for everyone despite outcry (PA was a very unpopular decision, Unity was even more unpopular. Instead of listening, the Ubuntu devs have made it nearly impossible for their users to switch away from both without major issue.).

That attitude was why I switched to Arch, which emphasizes heavily on user choice and doesn't force me to use options the developers "like" for me. I do grant Arch has gotten some criticism as of late for not being as transparent with its decision making as it should. And you should have seen the outcry that came when they switched to systemd as the default init system. Arch is also not the "best" either, as it's certainly not for everyone, being a distribution more geared to intermediate-advanced Linux users capable of resolving Linux issues themselves or finding help for themselves.