Can't speak for other commercial tools but EDA tool vendors usually support very specific versions of Linux usually RHEL and SUSE. Until recently even Xilinx's

Can't speak for other commercial tools but EDA tool vendors usually support very specific versions of Linux usually RHEL and SUSE. Until recently even Xilinx's tools would balk at installation on Centos. When the corp has spent millions on EDA tools, RHEL's yearly subscription looks like peanuts.