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Updated for arm and armv7l documentation (#11825)

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* Updated for arm and armv7l documentation

Cleared up the confusion caused by arm or armv7l  mentioned somewhere and not mentioned elsewhere

* 📝 Improve wording a bit.
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@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ Please note, the `ARM` version of Windows is not supported for now.
### Linux
The prebuilt `ia32` (`i686`) and `x64` (`amd64`) binaries of Electron are built on
Ubuntu 12.04, the `arm` binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and
Ubuntu 12.04, the `armv7l` binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and
NEON for Debian Wheezy.
[Until the release of Electron 2.0][arm-breaking-change], Electron will also
continue to release the `armv7l` binary with a simple `arm` suffix. Both binaries
are identical.
Whether the prebuilt binary can run on a distribution depends on whether the
distribution includes the libraries that Electron is linked to on the building
platform, so only Ubuntu 12.04 is guaranteed to work, but following platforms
@ -29,3 +33,5 @@ are also verified to be able to run the prebuilt binaries of Electron:
* Ubuntu 12.04 and later
* Fedora 21
* Debian 8
[arm-breaking-change]: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/planned-breaking-changes.md#duplicate-arm-assets