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Debian's got a sudo group, not a wheel group.
EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. Arch might use the wheel group and Debian the sudo group, and if he just copied his Arch sudoers file over his Debian one, it would reference the wheel group and wouldn't work.
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Yeah, Arch has wheel.
https://linuxopsys.com/topics/add-user-to-sudoers-in-arch-linux
EDIT2: I bet he tried to add his user account explicitly to /etc/sudoers rather than just adding the account to the sudo group and just got the syntax wrong in one way or another, as the syntax of sudoers isn't terribly intuitive.
In english you can use "they" if you dont know the persons pronouns ;D also pretty sure OP is female
But valid point, Debian is weird
You can, but you can also use "he", as English has a masculine generic.
I think that most Linux distros are based on Debian these days, as Fedora, the other major "parent" distro, seems not to be doing super-well, so I'd guess that most distros are probably using the sudo group.
https://distrowatch.com/images/other/distro-family-tree.png
Slackware looks not very alive these days, so I don't think that there's much going on with the child distros there any more.
Slackware is still very much alive, actively maintained, and used by dozens all over the world!
I keep reading the install manual then I have 3 beers and a nap.