Comment # 7 on bug 1226387 from Stefan Hundhammer

Olivier, thank you for those additional details.

So AFAICS we have a really bad mixture of X11 vs. Wayland problems (and maybe
display manager, too) and the desktops no longer importing settings from the
system to the initial user account being created.

As a user, I find that disappointing; it worked for countless years, and now it
was decided to no longer do this. Sure, Linux is a multi-user system, but to
all intents and purposes, most installations have one single user, and that
user is sitting on the system console, and installed the system previously
where language and keyboard were already selected.

We can only hope that our users find the subtle buttons in various places in
the display manager or in some system tray applet or some desktop-specific
configuration dialogs where they can set the keyboard again (to what they
already selected during installation). IMHO they shouldn't need to do that. But
it is what it is.