When I start my pc, (Nobara 43) Memory is up to 70% usage. I dual boot, but use Windows like 5% of the time. I have a Swap partition (64gb), but it shows 0b usage. Is it safe to kill the windows process? Can anyone shed some light into whats going on? I was starting to think this is sketchy lol

UPDATE: It most likely was a Winboat process that started up every time :p

  • bad1080@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    to me it sounds like something trying to hide in a windows system (where a process like that wouldn’t stand out). but it running in your linux system probably means it sits in something other than your storage (like your boot sector or bios).

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        /proc is a special directory that is populated by procfs, a special kind of filesystem. It contains information about running processes. Each sub-directory contains information for one process. When you launch an application, it’s assigned some process id. Every time you launch the application, it gets a different process id.

        You can try and find the application by running which windows. If the application is in your PATH, that tells where it is.

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    2 months ago

    C’est une très bonne nouvelle, et un effet bénéfique du marasme dans lequel nous nous trouvons actuellement.

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    Maybe it’s fastboot and windows is actually running in the background?