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Depending on their Desktop's architecture it might be required, arm systems do need to utilize CPU emulation to run programs made for x86-64. It's not usually as involved as emulation of a console platform but it's emulation no less.
Steam Deck is an AMD APU that is AMD64/x86_64 architecture.
They were talking about "emulating a Steamdeck on their desktop" implying that their desktop isn't a SteamDeck.