Its definitely better then using a web or a desktop wallet and Its with no doubt one of the best hardware wallets out there. Not only It supports multiple crypto currencies but Its possible to recover your wallet using a seed too If something goes wrong. Its also possible to use it on an infected computer without worrying about losing your coins unlike desktop/web wallets.
Yeah and integration is built in for a number of desktop wallets as well including Electrum/Mycelium/etc if you don't want to use Ledger's own wallet.