I will be the one to go against the grain and say that OS sounds are not necessarily annoying. What is annoying is OS sounds that are slow to start so that by t

I will be the one to go against the grain and say that OS sounds are not necessarily annoying. What is annoying is OS sounds that are slow to start so that by the time you hear them, the action has already been completed and you've performed the action twice or thrice more. A good OS sound is instant and lets you know something important or different happened.