Hi thecr3w,
I’m sorry you feel that way and have spent so much time trying to get the Editor running. You could be one of the edge cases, or perhaps having issues totally unrelated to UE4 itself.
All I can’t tell you is that everyone I have spoken to has been able to successfully compile and run the 3dluvr/4.7-linux in Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch, Suse, etc) either by following the Wiki or getting help on the IRC when Wiki wasn’t enough.
The only suggestion I have is to try again on a clean Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, following the Wiki exactly step-by-step. Alternatively you may wait for Epic to release a binary version of the UE4 Editor for Linux.
Thanks.