From the mouse-click on  "Shutdown" button in the logout-menu until the PC is shut down, it takes 62 seconds.
That is way too slow.

I remember it was about 2 or 3 seconds, but I cannot remember when it changed to 62 seconds. Maybe some installation or upgrade of kernel ?

The boot takes 26 seconds, which is very fast for my PC.

Here is my inxi -Fz  info :
System:    Host: franz-Inspiron-560 Kernel: 4.4.0-43-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.6.1) Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine:   System: Dell product: Inspiron 560 v: 00
           Mobo: Dell model: 0K83V0 v: A00 Bios: Dell v: A00 date: 10/06/2009
CPU:       Dual core Pentium E5400 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2700 MHz 1: 2003 MHz 2: 1603 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series]
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-3 Microsoft driver: USB Audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-43-generic
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (5.8% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD3200AAKS size: 320.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 4.7G (34%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda12
           ID-2: /home size: 31G used: 2.6G (9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda13
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 11.43GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 39.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 183 Uptime: 17 min Memory: 821.5/7983.0MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35


Hello to all members here.

Finding wattOS was accidental while testing several linux distributions on a linuxmintuser-forum where somebody mentioned  Peppermint-7.

So I searched for that and in their forum somebody mentioned wattOS  ----> now I am here.

My experience with Linux is similar to many.
Used only Windows for years, never learned the details, only did what everybody seems to do: screening for Virus, installing Firewalls (Zone alarm etc), then buying or testing the next Internet-Security software and looking for free software, never sure if it crashes the system.

I didn't dare to touch Linux for a long time.
Then Windows-8 came and then Windows-10 and that pushed me to Linux.

When I did, I stumbled over LinuxMint, installed it on my PC ... and messed up because something went wrong with "Root" or something I didn't understand.

So I began searching for that mysterious thing like "mounting Root" and mounting "home" and after many hours or days of searching I found that it is  a  "/" for Root in the installer and  "/home" for the home partition.

So you get the impression of how some people crash against a wall when touching Linux for the first time.
I know for sure that I am not alone in this.
Some find the "/" faster , some give up and return to Windows.

In the meanwhile I installed LinuxMint with different Desktops.
 Elementary, Debian, Ubuntu, Peppermint-7, Sparky and others.

Some were way too complicated for me like Mageia etc. and I gave up after a few hours.
Some I liked and kept them a bit longer. 

Right now Peppermint-7 and wattOS R10 are my top distros.

I could list reasons but basically it's about speed on my old PC ( Dell Inspiron 560 ) and Toshiba-Satellite Laptop.

Speed and knowing how to add a quick-launch icon to the Panel. 

Fast booting  ( wattOS seems to be a few seconds faster than P-7 , it needs about 25 seconds until the login-screen appears and after login it loads the desktop very fast) and fast shutdown.

The browser should load fast and surfing smooth.  Firefox is good, but with the standard addons I have, it needs more time to start than Opera does, therefore Opera is my default browser now.

For germans who are not able to basically understand english language like I do, wattOS is certainly not the choice. Ubuntu or Linux Mint is because they have german forums.

My english is not the best, but somehow enough to understand instructions, so I can stay with wattOS and the fine support I see happening here in the forum. 

Maybe you consider it silly, but one reason I might stick to whatOS is this forum. 
It just loads and navigates much faster than the P-7-forum does.
Such a minor thing is important, believe me.

Anyway.

Thanks to the developers of whatOS and all who support it.
You have done and are doing a great job.   

I created the VPN-connection according to the instructions here
http://planetwatt.com/newforum/index.php?topic=742.0

When I click on the vpn-connection, there is action but the lock disappears , then the network manager tries to connect again ...  until it gives up and there is no vpn-connection.

I ran into problems while creating the VPN-connection as described.
The "key.key" file did not open with leafpad, it opened with  Archiver.
In order to paste the key into it, I had to change the settings of the file to get it opened with leafpad.

I tried the instructions on the vpnbook.com website too and managed to get a VPN-connection, but that was somehow a mistake because there was no way described to logout of the VPN.
I had to reboot my PC to find myself on the normal Ethernet connection.

Does somebody has an idea what to do ?

The following thoughts came to my mind.
In Point 7, Dan says:

- Copy all of the text between the <ca> </ca> tags and paste it into ca.crt file that you made.

I therefore copied not the tags + text between,  but only the text.
Maybe I should include the tags ?
My english is not good but from my understanding the tags don't belong into the ca.crt file.
Am I correct ?

Another thought:
Maybe something is wrong with the text files I created ?
Here is a screenshot of the files which are located in the folder created for the VPN.

Why are there questionsmarks on the crt. files and why is the .key  file shown as "Apple Keynote 5 ..." file ?