diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index db1eed38d..f42828b31 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -1,4 +1,20 @@
 {
-  "name": "jan",
-  "image": "node:20"
+	"name": "Jan",
+	"image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:jammy",
+	"features": {
+		"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {
+			"version": "20"
+		},
+		"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/rust:1": {},
+		"ghcr.io/devcontainers-extra/features/corepack:1": {}
+	},
+
+	"postCreateCommand": "./.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh",
+
+	// appimagekit requires fuse to package appimage, to use fuse in the container you need to enable it on the host
+	"runArgs": [
+    	"--device", "/dev/fuse",
+    	"--cap-add=SYS_ADMIN",
+    	"--security-opt", "apparmor:unconfined"
+  	]
 }
diff --git a/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh b/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..79fb4de1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# install tauri prerequisites + xdg-utils for xdg-open + libfuse2 for using appimagekit
+
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install -yqq libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
+    build-essential \
+    curl \
+    wget \
+    file \
+    libxdo-dev \
+    libssl-dev \
+    libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
+    librsvg2-dev \
+    xdg-utils \
+    libfuse2
+
+sudo mkdir -p /opt/bin
+sudo wget https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage -O /opt/bin/appimagetool
+sudo chmod +x /opt/bin/appimagetool
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