Mission Center
Close matchFreeFree, with the familiar processor, memory, disk and network graphs and a list of running apps you can end.
Does Process Explorer run on Linux?
Verdict: No
No. Microsoft lists Process Explorer as running on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2019 and higher only. Linux has its own process monitors, though nothing matches its handle and DLL detail.
Process Explorer is part of Microsoft's Sysinternals set, and its download page says plainly that it runs on Windows clients from 11 upwards and Windows Server from 2019 upwards. It looks deep into how Windows itself works, so a Linux version would have nothing to look at.
For the everyday use, which is seeing what is running and what is using your processor and memory, the monitor that comes with your Linux system covers it. Mission Center is the free option that feels closest to what Windows users expect, with graphs for processor, memory, disk and network and a list of apps you can close.
For the deeper Sysinternals work, finding which program has a file open or what a process has loaded, Linux has command-line tools for this and no friendly graphical equivalent. If that was your reason for using Process Explorer, this is a genuine step down in convenience.
Most home users were opening it to close something that had frozen, and that need largely goes away. Programs lock up far less often on Linux.
What to use instead of Process Explorer
This doesn't have to stop you
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Process Explorer. Everything else you do can move.
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