Since there really isn't another topic and in the interest in keeping things in once place, going to post an update.
first, using the instructions on page 2 by Jovus and under mono 6. 12. 0. 182 on Ubuntu 22. 04 the game runs with only a couple issues but nothing preventing it from running.
there are some errors in the terminal stating the following.
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: cHRM chunk does not match sRGB
but I suspect this has more to do with Libpng being more stringent with the RGB profiles and the images just needing to be opened and re-saved, no big.
besides the aforementioned issues locating images which was addressed in the bottom post on page 1 by lupin with issues with file system trees and not locating files.
Besides not being able to select images when designing your race though everything else went smoothly.
The following seemed to work out of the box for the most part for starting the game via terminal, best if loaded from the game's directory.
FONT_NAME="Cantarell" FONT_SIZE=7.5 SCALEHACKX=1.0225 SCALEHACKY=1.01 LC_ALL=C MONO_IOMAP=all mono Aurora.exe
Only real issue I'm running into is game windows and tabs being a bit bigger than the box they're in.
for example on waypoints I'm missing the add waypoint option which I suspect is below the edge of the box in the system menu.
I suspect adjusting the scalehack parameters might fix this and will report back if there's a noticeable difference and if so experiment to see if there's other issues with the waypoints still as others have pointed out.
I know Linux support is experimental at best but that's the state of it right now. it works, for the most part and I'll tinker with the scaling to see about the waypoints, but for all intents and purposes the game works, under mono, in Linux, no crashing so far either.