I've had both the long line and a rotary line, and I don't prefer either, it depends on what space I have to work with. My parents have a stretched line but it's a decent length and has two cables, so getting a family's worth of washing out on it isn't hard. But when I moved in here I had some electric line strung between my door stoop and the shed and then anchored on a tree - but it was dangerous and liable to fall down at any moment because the thing it was attached to on the shed was/is rotten. So I have a rotary line. I need to fix it into the ground actually for this year but I can pick it up and store it behind my front door which is a bonus, for me.
But I'm also only washing for one human and two goblins, so I can afford the smaller line.
