#ubuntu

The desktop session uses the right keyboard layout, but the display manager greeter is still QWERTY. On Debian and Ubuntu the system-wide layout lives in /etc/default/keyboard and is applied by console-setup — localectl set-x11-keymap is deliberately disabled on these distributions.

Read the running BIOS/UEFI firmware version of a Framework Laptop from Linux with dmidecode — install it on Ubuntu or Fedora, interpret every field (vendor, version, release date, ROM size, CPU family.model.stepping), cross-check with lshw and sysfs, and compare against the latest Framework release with fwupd before flashing.