What are some of the add-ons that you run on the server? We run ours in a pretty bare-bones manner so I'm interested to hear what you're doing.

Agree about Windows Server. You can run SqlServer on Linux though. I'm not aware of your specific addons, but the Sql Server itself works perfectly well on Linux.

SSMS has been rebuilt as a framework within Visual Studio, now. It includes Copilot AI and a bunch of other niceties.