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In windows 7's task manager, we can get a short description of a running process:

See this (Picture source)

Can we get something similar?

One way could be to create a script, which will search the man pages or in the internet for all processes. Is there any better way?

It would be better, if I can get these features in gnome-system-monitor or in KSysGuard

A possible duplicate, but it seems to be cumbersome....

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I use Kubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. The process monitor (accessed by Control-Esc) shows me this. Is that what you want. You can then sort by cpu, process etc. enter image description here

Some commandline alternatives like cat /proc/{PID}/status are listed in the answers and comments of this question.

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Linux doesn't require processes to give a human-readable description, so there is no such thing, sorry.

Your best bet for finding out what a process does would be to simply search for it online (Google etc).

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Windows does this by reading properties of the PE that was run.

This is uncommon if at all supported by ELF so no, I wouldn't expect this to be possible without an auxiliary database on Linux. A tool that determines what package the binary belongs to and shows that package's description at best (don't know of any though).