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

Terminal results of "top" command, highlighting "windows" process using 52.4% of memory.
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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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