How to do something every 5 minutes in Go?

I feel like it's a dummy question, but I want to ask it anyway since I do not have much experience with concurrent programming.

In the app I am currently working on, someone wrote a code that should do something (in this case, printing "TICK!") every, let's say 5 minutes:

go func() {
    for {
        fmt.Println("TICK!")
        time.Sleep(5 * time.Minute)
    }
}()

However, from what I have read, the recommended approach is:

func CallTickerInBackground(done <-chan bool) {
    ticker := time.NewTicker(5 * time.Minute)
    go func() {
        for {
        	select {
        	case <-done:
        		logrus.Info("Stopping ticker")
        		ticker.Stop()
        		return
        	case <-ticker.C:
        		fmt.Println("TICK!")
        	}
        }
    }()
}

The advantages of the latter are that we have more stable time intervals (instead of processing time + waiting time) and we have control over stopping the background processing. On the other hand, right now a separate channel to stop it needs to be created, so it's slightly more complex.

So which approach is better, and why (or under what circumstances)?

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How to do something every 5 minutes in Go?