My OS is Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS - fully up to date.
I upgraded my NVIDIA driver to ( 384 ) and wine ( 2.13 ) and winetricks ( current git version ) followed the instructions.
Basically I can login and but I don't see Horizons ( because wine is set to 32bit and Horizons is 64bit only now? ) I do see the basic game and Combat Training, so I installed the Combat Training.
Trying to start combat training failed with a normal Window Serious crash type message, the wine gibberish in the background was complaining about gstreamer not having the plugin for 'video/x-ms-asf' which is rubbish because it is installed, a bit google-ing suggested doing: winetricks wmp9 quartz devenum so I did ( quartz was already installed I believe from your instructions )
After that I can start ED client, if I stay in the menus more than 30-40 seconds it freezers, if I breeze through the menus to just start the basic combat target practice mission I get the spinning sidewinder for 3-4 minutes, then it hangs. The game music is still playing in the background.
I think it got past the spinning sw once but went to black screen with music still playing.
This is much further than I've ever got before with ED on wine - but not actually playable yet