Actually the EDA industry for the longest time only hard working versions of their tools for "esoteric" cpu architectures like the Sparc and Solaris :). So yes

Actually the EDA industry for the longest time only hard working versions of their tools for "esoteric" cpu architectures like the Sparc and Solaris :). So yes by now they do support linux very well, some of the cadence and synopsis tools might not even work on windows (you need them for simulation, when Modelsim does not cut it). In any case EDA has been a Unix / Linux domain because it is so old and used to require really expensive unix workstations.