I ended up caving and just picking up another headset, however for people still using the Oculus family of headsets on Linux. OpenHMD is about all I can find for any level of support, though depending on your headset the level of support becomes worse. If you have the DEVKit headsets you obviously don't need this comment, seeing as how before Facebook owned this brand the headsets worked on Linux.
Also, the "Just use Windows" comment. I normally would be inclined to agree if the brand name itself when it was a Kickstarter didn't advert that it would support Linux. Facebook legitimately makes more than enough to hire some software engineers specializing in GNU Linux support.
Source of claim made: Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game by Oculus — Kickstarter