I've been using DC in WINE for 6 months maybe?
DC has "worked" in WINE for a long time, but the editor did not display properly.
I suggest you search the forum here and find the most recent thread about this, as I had some tips and such for how I got it to work.
There is one caveat, and depending on your level of Linux competence it's may be a big one. When the engine is used, it changes your screen resolution, just like in Windows, but when you're done, it doesn't return it to the oricignal resolution it will stay at 640x480. There are 3 things that you can do about this - 1) learn the key combo for your flavor of Linux that kills run level 5/changes run level 5 to run level 3 (text interface) and restart your system/relaunch run level 5. I've been told you can just logout and log back in, but I haven't tried that. 2) run all of your designs at 1024x768 (assuming that your system is set to that). You can do this with existing designs by changing two lines in the config.txt file, and it will run in the upper left-hand corner with unused space filled in with black. 3)Wait to play until the next release, when we can have a special "windowed" build of the engine made for Linux use (this is possible I'm using one, but it's not compatible with .914 editor)
Heck, I haven't updated WINE in a couple of months, maybe it works now...it might also be that I just haven't gotten the right DLL file installed yet.
I look forward to hearing how this goes.