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It sounds like you’re seeing a few different issues here and it makes me wonder if there’s some hardware issue that’s causing some of this or if the installation is botched (though it’s be odd for that to hose two different distros.
Last time I looked Debian didn’t include sudo by default, so you’d have to install it first. To add yourself to the sudoers group, log in as root and run
usermod -aG sudo mariah(assuming that’s your username). Then reboot (logging out your user should work too, but better be thorough).Grub sometimes includes a timeout longer than I like and you can edit that in the
/etc/default/grubfile to something of your liking.Not sure what you mean about the commands, but maybe it’s an issue with your $PATH.
I don't think that it's the GRUB timeout that OP's smacking into. That applies after the GRUB screen comes up, rather than before.
Good catch! I completely misread that bit.