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Funny you say that, because I have an old laptop that has a native VGA output on board and I'm testing it out right now! It works and Mint outputs through it just fine, but I'd need to get a VGA to composite adapter. Buuuut, if I'm gonna do that, I might as well just get an HDMI to composite adapter for the compatibility.
Also, any USB to composite/s video/component adapters? That sounds like a great workaround.
USB -> Anything requires adapters/drivers/dedicated hardware. Composite is a dead format so you’ll be hard pressed to find one, let alone find one which works. VGA is a least a video standard supported by almost all video chips (why I recommended it).
The only PC made in this century which supports composite natively, is the Raspberry Pi.
Yeah that makes sense. I'll have a look into VGA converters, thanks for the tip!