well an approach might be to list what you don't want; then look at the deps involved for the unwanted packages and see if any of those deps are also deps of wanted packages.
Now it looks like a Zorin user ; so i have no idea on that distro.
Bit i might add that on slackware i can visually look to see what i have by going to /var/log/packages or a simple command line search using ls /var/log/packages | grep <package>
I can go to slackbuilds and look to see what deps packages have and read about them. Or i can use slpkg and with the right flags it will show me in a graph package/dep relationship.
The biggest nightmare to me is to use click click apt install and reverse that to get rid of stuff ; it all flashes before your eyes and although quick can butcher your setup if your not careful.
