I have it connected to my TV so I can stream sports.

You might want to remove your child’s account name from this post.

I have EmuDeck already installed. Anyone have experience with both and recommend one over the other?

You could before as well. Check out EmuDeck.

Oh god. I’ve turned into one of those people.

Less players means less people upset when they shut down the servers? I don’t know why else.

Check out Nobara

https://nobaraproject.org/