Verdict: No
No. Maxon lists ZBrush for Windows, macOS and iPad only. There is no Linux version, and the licence you hold does not include one.
ZBrush is the standard digital sculpting program and it has never been released for Linux. Maxon's product page names Windows, including Windows on ARM, macOS with Apple Silicon support, and iPadOS, and notes that a licence covers desktop and iPad together. Linux does not appear.
Blender is the replacement most sculptors move to, and it is free. Its sculpting mode handles dynamic topology, masking and brushes, and for character and creature work people do produce finished results with it. It is not as smooth as ZBrush at very high polygon counts, and features such as ZRemesher and the ZBrush brush library have no exact equal, so expect the work to feel different rather than identical.
One habit carries over. A graphics tablet is central to sculpting, and most common tablets are recognised by Linux without you installing anything. It is still worth plugging yours in and testing pressure sensitivity before you commit to the switch.
Your .ztl files cannot be opened on Linux. Before the Windows machine goes, export your sculpts as OBJ or FBX, and export your high detail as normal or displacement maps, because those carry the surface detail across when the raw mesh would be too heavy to work with.
Free sculpting, retopology and rendering in one program, properly supported on Linux. Slower and less refined than ZBrush at extreme detail levels.
Your files: Cannot open .ztl files. Imports OBJ and FBX exports along with your baked detail maps.
Only relevant if what you liked was painting textures and concepts rather than sculpting. Excellent tablet support and free.
Your files: No ZBrush file support. Works with ordinary image files for texture painting.
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need ZBrush. Everything else you do can move.
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