[dandotway]

This is also the experience with Ubuntu on Windows WSL:

  $ ps aux
  USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
  root         1  3.5  0.0   8944   332 ?        Ssl  11:38   0:00 /init
  root         7  0.0  0.0   8944   228 tty1     Ss   11:38   0:00 /init
  dando        8  1.7  0.0  16804  3396 tty1     S    11:38   0:00 -bash
  dando       32  0.0  0.0  17392  1916 tty1     R    11:38   0:00 ps aux

A strange irony that the most purist Unix-like Linux is to be found in the belly of the Windows beast, for the equivalent of those hundreds of processes doing who knows what on a typical native Linux install are instead all in Windows Task Manager.

[DaiPlusPlus]

Tip: If a process is a service-host, run `tasklist /svc` and that way you can actually know what's going on in each process.