DVI and VGA were at one point the most common methods of connecting monitors to devices, but decades later, what's the practical difference between them?

You’d need a dock. HDMI alternate mode is probably what the USB-C port is being used for with that adapter (just a guess!) and I don’t think you can get two independent display outputs out of that.

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