The base distribution is irrelevant. It's what packages you are able to install that makes it useful or not.
In today's world, any distro is useful. Just select the distro that suits your style of work.
I used to distro-hop for quite a while. It surprised me recently to find that I've been using Linux Mint for over a decade.
(And I always keep three root partitions available on my boot-disk so that I can have an 'everyday' system, an 'emergency' system if the 'everyday' system gets broken somehow, and an 'experimental' system to see what other distros can do.)
In today's world, any distro is useful. Just select the distro that suits your style of work.
I used to distro-hop for quite a while. It surprised me recently to find that I've been using Linux Mint for over a decade.
(And I always keep three root partitions available on my boot-disk so that I can have an 'everyday' system, an 'emergency' system if the 'everyday' system gets broken somehow, and an 'experimental' system to see what other distros can do.)