diff --git a/distributed/tests/test_client.py b/distributed/tests/test_client.py
index 90b999bcc41..f9dbb5e7caf 100644
--- a/distributed/tests/test_client.py
+++ b/distributed/tests/test_client.py
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 from distributed.diagnostics.plugin import WorkerPlugin
 from distributed.metrics import time
 from distributed.scheduler import CollectTaskMetaDataPlugin, KilledWorker, Scheduler
+from distributed.shuffle import check_minimal_arrow_version
 from distributed.sizeof import sizeof
 from distributed.utils import (
     NoOpAwaitable,
@@ -3258,11 +3259,17 @@ async def test_cancel_clears_processing(c, s, *workers):
 
 
 def test_default_get(loop_in_thread):
+    has_pyarrow = False
+    try:
+        check_minimal_arrow_version()
+        has_pyarrow = True
+    except RuntimeError:
+        pass
     loop = loop_in_thread
     with cluster() as (s, [a, b]):
         pre_get = dask.base.get_scheduler()
-        # These may change in the future but the selection below shoul dnot
-        distributed_default = "tasks"
+        # These may change in the future but the selection below should not
+        distributed_default = "p2p" if has_pyarrow else "tasks"
         local_default = "disk"
         assert get_default_shuffle_algorithm() == local_default
         with Client(s["address"], set_as_default=True, loop=loop) as c:
diff --git a/distributed/tests/test_dask_collections.py b/distributed/tests/test_dask_collections.py
index 214db022105..12b9417d9ac 100644
--- a/distributed/tests/test_dask_collections.py
+++ b/distributed/tests/test_dask_collections.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 np = pytest.importorskip("numpy")
 pd = pytest.importorskip("pandas")
 
+from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
 from pandas.testing import assert_frame_equal, assert_index_equal, assert_series_equal
 
 import dask
@@ -109,6 +110,13 @@ async def test_dask_array_collections(c, s, a, b):
         np.testing.assert_equal(o_local, o_remote)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    (
+        parse_version(dask.__version__) < parse_version("2023.2.2")
+        and parse_version(dask.__version__) >= parse_version("2023.2.1")
+    ),
+    reason="https://github.com/dask/dask/pull/10005",
+)
 @gen_cluster(client=True)
 async def test_bag_groupby_tasks_default(c, s, a, b):
     b = db.range(100, npartitions=10)
@@ -174,12 +182,12 @@ def test_dataframe_groupby_tasks(client):
     for ind in [lambda x: "A", lambda x: x.A]:
         a = df.groupby(ind(df)).apply(len)
         b = ddf.groupby(ind(ddf)).apply(len, meta=(None, int))
-        assert_equal(a, b.compute(scheduler="sync").sort_index())
+        assert_equal(a, b.compute().sort_index())
         assert not any("partd" in k[0] for k in b.dask)
 
         a = df.groupby(ind(df)).B.apply(len)
         b = ddf.groupby(ind(ddf)).B.apply(len, meta=("B", int))
-        assert_equal(a, b.compute(scheduler="sync").sort_index())
+        assert_equal(a, b.compute().sort_index())
         assert not any("partd" in k[0] for k in b.dask)
 
     with pytest.raises((NotImplementedError, ValueError)):
@@ -188,7 +196,7 @@ def test_dataframe_groupby_tasks(client):
     a = df.groupby(["A", "B"]).apply(len)
     b = ddf.groupby(["A", "B"]).apply(len, meta=(None, int))
 
-    assert_equal(a, b.compute(scheduler="sync").sort_index())
+    assert_equal(a, b.compute().sort_index())
 
 
 @gen_cluster(client=True)