Personally it was not. I did not like the UI changes in explorer and nor did i see any performance jumps. Hence, i rolled back to the w10

Perhaps you can take a call on if you want the new UI (i personally like the older one a lot more as I'm used to it), and can switch based on that

Only ssh,nvim,htop, and screen. Rest all are whatever is required. I like to keep things minimal until i really need the server to do anything specific.

I resort to docker only if i need the application temporarily or the application setup is awkward/annoying.