Most CAD programs work on Mac. It's just 2x-4x more expensive to buy comparable Apple hardware that runs it. I agree that the scripting is a moat around Window

Most CAD programs work on Mac. It's just 2x-4x more expensive to buy comparable Apple hardware that runs it. I agree that the scripting is a moat around Window's dominance but most small businesses run Windows because the hardware is more affordable and a lot of people are comfortable with Windows. Office is also super cheap now and free alternatives kind of suck and they address common pain points incrementally better than they did 10 years ago. In other words, it doesn't feel like free Office alternatives are keeping up. For example, LibreOffice stopped trying to improve compatibility with MS Office documents. I get the philosophical reasons but if you want to migrate end-users, you have to care about things like that. At my son's public school, he was being taught to use Google Docs because (of course) it's more affordable than buying a bunch of copies of Microsoft Office for the kids. He was doing homework one day and he was trying to do some common formatting thing in Google Docs. Can't remember specifics. After a few minutes of trying to help him figure it out, I was like "let me introduce you to this little program called Microsoft Word". It blew his mind after using Google Docs.