Preferred, safe way to delete Btrfs snapshots?

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I’m a Tumbleweed newbie. So I go into Yast and open the Filesystem Snapshots app. IINM this app is also known as Snapper. I see a list of all my snapshots and a Delete button at the bottom. Is this Delete button the safe and preferred way to delete snapshots? Or is there a better way? “Better” means less chance of data corruption.

Also, is there a common way(s) that Btrfs gets corrupted? And if yes, what is it and what can I do to avoid it?

Also, does Btrfs require any kind of regular maintenance? Like fsck or something like that?

I’m an average home user with one laptop and nothing else. I do browsing and work with a few documents and that’s it. I don’t do programming or gaming or video editing. I have no RAID, no NAS, no home network, and no homelab.

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https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial

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The best way is to do nothing. Snapshots will be automatically removed for you.

Regular maintenance is also automatically performed.

This advice assumes you have done a normal (default) install.

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So if I read the manual correctly, Snapper automatically handles the deletion of old snapshots. Sounds like the user doesn’t need to worry about manually deleting old snapshots.

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Perfect answer for a newbie like me. The system automatically handles all that stuff. Nice. I can focus on getting to the next level of Leisure Suit Larry.