Testing MoI through wine (playonlinux) now - amost success :) . Thank you!
The app starts and the main fuctions work correctly. It is not very smooth but that is to be expected.
But I came across a small , but annoying bug. Will try to explain it - it is like there's a delay in the screen drawing. For example when I hover to select something the items do not get highlighted. It gets highlighted when I do something next - even move the cursor slightly.
The same goes for most of the things. FOr example I draw a selection box on an empty space - it should disapear (as no selection is made) as soon as I release it. BUt it does not - it disapears when I move/pan the screen. ANy ideas how can I get rid of the problem?

Other than that I get a feeling it could work . I made a simple extrusion and then exported to obj that I then opened in Modo - I knew that MoI produces really nice meshes (and recommended it a couple of times), but I still have been surprised how nice it is :) .