New to Skyrim

Ok so I have never played Skyrim at all. Not sure how this happened as I love games like fallout and the elder scrolls. I guess having two kids pauses video games for a while. Anyway, I have an old gaming computer (980ti gpu) and a new quest 3s. Just bought Skyrim vr last night. I’m a little overwhelmed knowing that my computer probably can’t run all the mods, but hoping I can get something going. Then I see there’s mods that give the npcs ai driven dialogue which sounds amazing. I don’t want to buy a new gaming PC. Maybe upgrade mine a bit? Maybe a new gaming laptop? Gah, any suggestions or options? I want to finally play this amazing game.