[jeroenhd]

I've met quite a few (junior) devs who will follow guides instead of using their package manager because they come from Windows and aren't used to using their distro's tools.

I expect many professionals who do use Linux to run on stable possibly LTS versions of their distribution of choice and those rarely come with up to date tools for languages like Go or Rust or even Docker.

I wish installation would only come through package managers, but the amount of people I've had to help upgrade their Ubuntu to a newer version because they added a whole bunch of external repositories without realising the impact has taught me otherwise.

It's possible that distros will come out if the box with a /usr/share/go/env file even if Go isn't installed, but that'll take a while.

[creepycrawler]

Good points, I could definitely be wrong in my estimate of the proportion of installations coming from the package manager. It may be that enough utility will be found in a fork. Nothing but to wait and see ;)