@thor The opinion of the chip makers has no real relevance in my opinion. It is what the EE use and like that matters and they almost exclusively use software availible on linux (though there are windows versions too so meets that criteria anyway).

The truth is, Eagle / Kicad are easily the vast majority of what EEs use, even more so if the intent is to share source files.

@freemo i don't have friends in the EE industry since i'm self taught. i've done some designs that would probably get a passing grade from a person with an EE degree since i seem to have a knack for these things. but i don't have any contacts. so i'm mostly left guessing based on Google searches.