diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index 5ec6d2347..fb7c3e4ab 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM ubuntu:21.10 AS base
+FROM ubuntu:20.04 AS base
 
 # environment is to make python pass an interactive shell, probably not the best timezone given a wide variety of colleagues
 ENV TZ=Europe/Amsterdam