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Honestly OP, weird keyboard issues, especially on a laptop are very often hardware failures.
As for driver downloading software, Linux works far different from Windows in this sense. Linux drivers usually come packaged with the kernel and are otherwise downloaded through the repository of your relevant distribution, so you don't need any third party software.
You could boot into the bios and test the keys there. If they still don't work then its a hardware issue. Do you know how to get into the bios?
Edit: Also OP, if you do have issues in the future, please post them on https://lemmy.world/c/techsupport as this isn't really the right community.
I believe I've booted into the BIOS before and they didn't work? but to be sure how would I get into the BIOS?
(Sometimes the bios key is F10 or F12, so if F2 doesn't work just redo the steps but try those keys instead.)
(If you press the arrow keys and nothing happens, your keyboard is broken.)
Once you are there you should see an option to "set an administrators password". click on that and press a key that you know doesn't work. if nothing is inputted into the password field then the keyboard is definently broken.
to exit the password input field simply press esc, and then you can navigate to exit, and select exit discarding changes.
If you got to step 5 and everything worked then it is definently an issue with the OS.
I've tried everything, but I can't seem to get into the bios? i've pressed f2 and the others, and even a few extras but It doesn't seem to work.
Have you tried F3, Escape and Delete?
And, just curious, how do you log in to ubuntu if your keys don't work?
I haven't tried delete yet actually, give me a sec. during the installation of ubuntu I made it so it automatically signs into my account.
yeah, I can't seem to do it.
In that case, your keyboard is most likely broken. Perhaps you could still have it fixed under warranty? You can enter the laptop serial number on https://support.hp.com to check if the warranty is still active.
this was pre-2020 but I can check if it's still under warranty (if it somehow is, I hope it isin't too pricey), I can take it from here, thank you man, I appreciate it!
No problem, have a nice day :)