There's a ton of guides, I found it useful to read a bunch of them and mentally prepare for the kind of stuff I should be doing.

Thanks! I've read up since the last post. Now I'm trying to decide if I can live without SLI.

The guide linked above was the same one I used. Honestly it took me quite a while to get it all working. I had to buy a separate soundcard since I wasn't able to get the one on the motherboard to pass through the audio correctly without static noise in it. Once I got the HTC Vive I ended up just going back to a dedicated Windows install and built a separate machine just for Linux stuff. Saved me lots of headache.