Need some guidance for Mods

Okay, So i've always wanted to play morrowind for it's out of this world architecture and feel. fortunately the games is on sale on GOG. i'm thinking of playing it but before that can you guys guide me on how to play it in the modern age with mods.

so it doesn't feel like i'm playing an outdated game, i have heard that the openMW mod is a good starting point, i want the experience to be as close to vanilla as it can be just some basic graphics mod, bug fixes and some combat upgrades too.

i'm currently running arch(linux on a thinkpad t470
here are my specs
i5-7th gen
intel hd 620
with 16 gigs of dual-channel ram

i just want it to be as close to vanilla as it can be without installing 300+ mods.