diff --git a/.github/workflows/mypy_primer.yml b/.github/workflows/mypy_primer.yml
index 0c77d3a255d8..dfe15109375a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/mypy_primer.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/mypy_primer.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ on:
   # Only run on PR, since we diff against master
   pull_request:
     paths-ignore:
+    - '.github/**'
     - 'docs/**'
     - '**/*.rst'
     - '**/*.md'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 6ec8954bbe3e..8eb5bcb55c81 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ on:
 permissions:
   contents: read
 
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
+# concurrency:
+#   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+#   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
   main:
@@ -31,49 +31,56 @@ jobs:
         include:
         # Make sure to run mypyc compiled unit tests for both
         # the oldest and newest supported Python versions
-        - name: Test suite with py38-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
-          python: '3.8'
-          arch: x64
-          os: ubuntu-latest
-          toxenv: py
-          tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
-          test_mypyc: true
-        - name: Test suite with py38-windows-64
-          python: '3.8'
-          arch: x64
-          os: windows-latest
-          toxenv: py38
-          tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
-        - name: Test suite with py39-ubuntu
-          python: '3.9'
-          arch: x64
-          os: ubuntu-latest
-          toxenv: py
-          tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
-        - name: Test suite with py310-ubuntu
-          python: '3.10'
-          arch: x64
-          os: ubuntu-latest
-          toxenv: py
-          tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
-        - name: Test suite with py311-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
-          python: '3.11'
-          arch: x64
-          os: ubuntu-latest
-          toxenv: py
-          tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
-          test_mypyc: true
-        - name: Test suite with py312-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
-          python: '3.12'
+        # - name: Test suite with py38-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
+        #   python: '3.8'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: ubuntu-latest
+        #   toxenv: py
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
+        #   test_mypyc: true
+        # - name: Test suite with py38-windows-64
+        #   python: '3.8'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: windows-latest
+        #   toxenv: py38
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
+        # - name: Test suite with py39-ubuntu
+        #   python: '3.9'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: ubuntu-latest
+        #   toxenv: py
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
+        # - name: Test suite with py310-ubuntu
+        #   python: '3.10'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: ubuntu-latest
+        #   toxenv: py
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
+        # - name: Test suite with py311-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
+        #   python: '3.11'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: ubuntu-latest
+        #   toxenv: py
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
+        #   test_mypyc: true
+        # - name: Test suite with py312-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
+        #   python: '3.12'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: ubuntu-latest
+        #   toxenv: py
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
+        #   test_mypyc: true
+        - name: Test suite with py313-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
+          python: '3.13'
           arch: x64
           os: ubuntu-latest
           toxenv: py
           tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
           test_mypyc: true
-        - name: Test suite with py313-ubuntu, mypyc-compiled
+        - name: Test suite with py313-windows-64, mypyc-compiled
           python: '3.13'
           arch: x64
-          os: ubuntu-latest
+          os: windows-latest
           toxenv: py
           tox_extra_args: "-n 4"
           test_mypyc: true
@@ -87,13 +94,13 @@ jobs:
         #   allow_failure: true
         #   test_mypyc: true
 
-        - name: mypyc runtime tests with py39-macos
-          python: '3.9.18'
-          arch: x64
-          # TODO: macos-13 is the last one to support Python 3.9, change it to macos-latest when updating the Python version
-          os: macos-13
-          toxenv: py
-          tox_extra_args: "-n 3 mypyc/test/test_run.py mypyc/test/test_external.py"
+        # - name: mypyc runtime tests with py39-macos
+        #   python: '3.9.18'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   # TODO: macos-13 is the last one to support Python 3.9, change it to macos-latest when updating the Python version
+        #   os: macos-13
+        #   toxenv: py
+        #   tox_extra_args: "-n 3 mypyc/test/test_run.py mypyc/test/test_external.py"
         # This is broken. See
         # - https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/17819
         # - https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/17822
@@ -110,11 +117,11 @@ jobs:
           arch: x64
           os: ubuntu-latest
           toxenv: type
-        - name: Type check our own code (py38-windows-64)
-          python: '3.8'
-          arch: x64
-          os: windows-latest
-          toxenv: type
+        # - name: Type check our own code (py38-windows-64)
+        #   python: '3.8'
+        #   arch: x64
+        #   os: windows-latest
+        #   toxenv: type
 
           # We also run these checks with pre-commit in CI,
           # but it's useful to run them with tox too,
@@ -185,16 +192,27 @@ jobs:
         echo os.sched_getaffinity; python -c 'import os; print(len(getattr(os, "sched_getaffinity", lambda *args: [])(0)))'
         pip install setuptools==68.2.2 tox==4.11.0
 
-    - name: Compiled with mypyc
-      if: ${{ matrix.test_mypyc }}
+    - name: Compiled with mypyc (ubuntu)
+      if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
       run: |
         pip install -r test-requirements.txt
         CC=clang MYPYC_OPT_LEVEL=0 MYPY_USE_MYPYC=1 pip install -e .
 
+    - name: Compiled with mypyc (win)
+      if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
+      env:
+        MYPYC_OPT_LEVEL: 0
+        MYPY_USE_MYPYC: 1
+      run: |
+        pip install -r test-requirements.txt
+        pip install -e .
+
     - name: Setup tox environment
+      if: false
       run: |
         tox run -e ${{ matrix.toxenv }} --notest
     - name: Test
+      if: false
       run: tox run -e ${{ matrix.toxenv }} --skip-pkg-install -- ${{ matrix.tox_extra_args }}
       continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.allow_failure == 'true' }}