second-hand information but apparently the reason they can't is that the driver contains code licensed from other companies and they can't open-source that.
while obviously not an official source, that isn't particularly surprising either.
as an additional relatively-well-known-but-possibly-incorrect bit of internet lore, right now their Linux driver is basically a wrapper around their Windows driver, so that explanation makes a lot of sense. They would have to go through and disentangle what parts they own and what needs to be stripped out / replaced for the linux version at an absolute minimum.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/j217oo/gamers_nex...
while obviously not an official source, that isn't particularly surprising either.
as an additional relatively-well-known-but-possibly-incorrect bit of internet lore, right now their Linux driver is basically a wrapper around their Windows driver, so that explanation makes a lot of sense. They would have to go through and disentangle what parts they own and what needs to be stripped out / replaced for the linux version at an absolute minimum.