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Processes

Elena Daehnhardt · 15 Aug, 2025

This post is about managing processes on Linux/macOS and Windows — how to check what’s running, how to stop it (politely or otherwise), and what it means to run things in the background. We’ll explore OS-specific commands and tools such as ps, top, kill, Task Manager, and tasklist, with plenty of examples and the occasional cautionary tale.