diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
index 77a86021..24e78d64 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     env:
       RM_TS_DIR: "/tmp/rmlint-unit-testdir"
     steps:
@@ -17,75 +17,27 @@ jobs:
         with:
             fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: "Prepare build environment"
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            scons python3-sphinx gettext python3-setuptools \
-            libblkid-dev libelf-dev libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-dev \
-            clang python3-pip python3-cffi python3-dev libffi-dev
-          pip3 install -r tests/requirements.txt
-          
-      - name: "Build"
-        # Todo: eventually run tests with valgrind (RM_TS_USE_VALGRIND)
-        # Todo enable slow tests in pytest
-        run: |
-          scons config
-          scons VERBOSE=1 DEBUG=1 O=release
-        
-      - name: "Check need for testing"
-        # TODO also include skipping build but allow docs to be processed
+
+      - name: "Check changes"
+        # TODO also include skippin
+        shell: bash
         run: |
-          if git diff --exit-code --name-only origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF HEAD ':!.gitignore' ':!docs' ':!*.md' ':!*.txt'; then
-            echo "RUN_TEST=false" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "BASE: $GITHUB_BASE_REF"
+          echo "REF: $GITHUB_REF"
+          echo "MERGECOMMIT: $GITHUB_SHA"
+          echo "HEAD_REF: ${{ GITHUB.HEAD_REF }}"
+          if git diff --exit-code --name-only origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF...$GITHUB_SHA ':!.gitignore' ':!docs' ':!*.md' ':!*.txt' ':!*.yml'; then
+            echo "RUN_TEST=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
             echo "RUN_TEST = false"
           else
-            echo "RUN_TEST=true" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+            echo "RUN_TEST=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
             echo "RUN_TEST = true"
           fi
-  
-      - name: "Prepare test environment"
-        # TODO Ignore linter warning. See https://github.com/github/vscode-github-actions/issues/222        
-        if: ${{ env.RUN_TEST == 'true' }}
-        # The test suite is seriously disk-intensive. Given that linux
-        #  instances hosted in GitHub have 16G of RAM available we will
-        #  use it to speed up the run.
-        run: |
-          sudo mkdir "${RM_TS_DIR}"
-          sudo mount -o size=12G,nr_inodes=0 -t tmpfs tmpfs "${RM_TS_DIR}"
+      - name: "Should we test"
+        run:
+          echo "the answer is $RUN_TEST"
 
       - name: "Test it"
-        if: ${{ env.RUN_TEST == 'true' }}
-        run: |
-          RM_TS_PRINT_CMD=1 RM_TS_PEDANTIC=0 python -m pytest -s -v
-
-      - name: CoW tests
-        if: ${{ env.RUN_TEST == 'true' }}
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          sudo umount "${RM_TS_DIR}"
-          sudo modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=12582912
-          sudo mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/ram0
-          sudo mount /dev/ram0 "${RM_TS_DIR}"
-          sudo chmod 0777 "${RM_TS_DIR}"
-          cat <<'EOF' >> tests/conftest.py
-
-          def pytest_collection_modifyitems(items, config):
-              selected_items = []
-              deselected_items = []
-
-              for item in items:
-                  if "needs_reflink_fs" in getattr(item, "fixturenames", ()):
-                      selected_items.append(item)
-                  else:
-                      deselected_items.append(item)
-              config.hook.pytest_deselected(items=deselected_items)
-              items[:] = selected_items
-          EOF
-          RM_TS_PRINT_CMD=1 RM_TS_PEDANTIC=0 python -m pytest -s -v
-          
-      - name: "Cleanup"
-        if: ${{ env.RUN_TEST == 'true' }}
+        if: ! ${{ env.RUN_TEST == 'true' }}
         run: |
-          sudo umount "${RM_TS_DIR}"
-          sudo rmdir "${RM_TS_DIR}"
+          echo "RUNNING IT... "
diff --git a/tests/.python-version b/tests/.python-version
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..251b3507
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/.python-version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.10.16
diff --git a/tests/test_formatters/test_csv.py b/tests/test_formatters/test_csv.py
index 8d19cb64..4659525a 100644
--- a/tests/test_formatters/test_csv.py
+++ b/tests/test_formatters/test_csv.py
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ def csv_string_to_data(csv_dump):
     data = list(csv.reader(csv_dump.splitlines()))
     return data[1:]
 
-
-def test_simple(usual_setup_usual_teardown):
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures('usual_setup_usual_teardown')
+def test_simple():
     create_file('1234', 'a')
     create_file('1234', 'b')
     create_file('1234', 'stupid\'file,name')
diff --git a/tests/test_formatters/test_json.py b/tests/test_formatters/test_json.py
index 2e72e2ee..d04a1396 100644
--- a/tests/test_formatters/test_json.py
+++ b/tests/test_formatters/test_json.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 from tests.utils import *
 
 
-def test_simple(usual_setup_usual_teardown):
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures('usual_setup_usual_teardown')
+def test_simple():
     full_path_a = create_file('x', '\t\r\"\b\f\\')
     full_path_b = create_file('x', '\"\t\n2134124')
     head, *data, footer = run_rmlint('-S a')
diff --git a/tests/test_formatters/test_others.py b/tests/test_formatters/test_others.py
index 3f16a637..746166cf 100644
--- a/tests/test_formatters/test_others.py
+++ b/tests/test_formatters/test_others.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 from tests.utils import *
 
 
-def test_just_call_it(usual_setup_usual_teardown):
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures('usual_setup_usual_teardown')
+def test_just_call_it():
     create_file('1234', 'a')
     create_file('1234', 'b')
 
diff --git a/tests/test_formatters/test_sh.py b/tests/test_formatters/test_sh.py
index 3b332c89..6ead303f 100644
--- a/tests/test_formatters/test_sh.py
+++ b/tests/test_formatters/test_sh.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ def filter_part_of_directory(data):
     return [e for e in data if e['type'] != 'part_of_directory']
 
 
-def test_basic(usual_setup_usual_teardown, shell):
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures('usual_setup_usual_teardown')
+def test_basic(shell):
     create_file('xxx', 'a')
     create_file('xxx', 'b')