diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        os: ["ubuntu-latest", "macos-latest", "windows-latest"]
        python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
        exclude:
        - os: "macos-latest"

diff --git a/git/remote.py b/git/remote.py
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ def _get_fetch_info_from_stderr(
            None,
            progress_handler,
            finalizer=None,
-            decode_streams=True,
            kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout,
        )

@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ def fetch(
            Git.check_unsafe_options(options=list(kwargs.keys()), unsafe_options=self.unsafe_git_fetch_options)

        proc = self.repo.git.fetch(
-            "--", self, *args, as_process=True, with_stdout=False, universal_newlines=False, v=verbose, **kwargs
        )
        res = self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress, kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout)
        if hasattr(self.repo.odb, "update_cache"):
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ def pull(
            Git.check_unsafe_options(options=list(kwargs.keys()), unsafe_options=self.unsafe_git_pull_options)

        proc = self.repo.git.pull(
-            "--", self, refspec, with_stdout=False, as_process=True, universal_newlines=False, v=True, **kwargs
        )
        res = self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress, kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout)
        if hasattr(self.repo.odb, "update_cache"):